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Posted By: Dave Hornish

Found an obit for Penn's son here: http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-153163047.html

Note the last sentence, which may pin the time frame down as 1911-12.

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Lucky Strike founder Charles Penn, 63, dies.(Triad)

Article from:
The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC)


75 YEARS AGO

From the Greensboro Daily News, Oct. 22-28, 1931

Charles A. Penn, vice president of American Tobacco Co. and long prominent in civic and charitable activities in Reidsville, died at St. Luke's Hospital in New York after a short illness. He was 63.

He appeared to be in good health until he became ill several days ago and was admitted to the hospital. Penn was well known within the tobacco industry and was a pioneer in introducing modern machine methods to making cigarettes and cigars. He was working with his father at the old F.R. Penn Tobacco Co . when it merged with American Tobacco about 1911.