PENICK, Charles Clifton, P. E. bishop, born in Charlotte county, Virginia, 9 December, 1843. In 1860 he was at a military school in Danville, Virginia, and soon afterward he went to Hampden Sidney college. At the beginning of the civil war he joined the Confederate army and served in a Virginia regiment as quartermaster until Lee's surrender in April, 1865. He then entered the Theological seminary of Virginia at Alexandria, and was graduated in 1869. He was ordained deacon in the chapel of the seminary, 26 June, 1869, by Bishop Johns, and priest in the same place, 24 June, 1870, by the same bishop. While in deacon's orders he served in Bristol, Virginia, and on being made priest became rector of St. George's church, Mount Savage, Maryland, in 1870. Three years later he accepted the rectorship of the Church of the Messiah, Baltimore, which post he held until 1877. Having been appointed missionary bishop of Cape Palmas and parts adjacent in western Africa, he was consecrated in St. Paul's church, Alexandria, Virginia, 13 February, 1877. He received the degree of D. D. from Kenyon college, Ohio, in 1877. After six years' arduous service in Africa he sent in his resignation, which was accepted by the house of bishops in 1883. Bishop Penick soon afterward accepted the rectorship of St. Andrew's church, Louisville, Kentucky, which post he still holds (1888). He has published a volume entitled " More than a Prophet" (New York, 1880).