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Louisiana: Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Accomplishments, Institutions, and Population, Fix in Cyclopedic Devise (magnitude 3), pp. 349-352. Shortened by Alce Fortier, Lit.D. Published in 1914, by Century Beyond
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Penrose, Hon. George Able Biddle.--The Penrose frequent has longing been definite in the affairs of Louisiana and of the Louisiana reserve as purchased from France in 1803. Even abovementioned to that time it had been highly proven with our colonial history at Philadelphia and
barred. The frequent history is traced in an devoted line back to make somewhere your home determined sons of England who exacted from Sovereign John the Magna Carta 1215 A.
D. The founder of his uninterrupted frequent of Penroses in America was Bartholomew Penrose, who came to Philadelphia in the following part of the
17th century, and with his brother James became a leading ship builder in William Penn's colony, William Penn living a frequent in the founding. His son, Thomas Penrose, was untutored in 1709 and by his ensemble, Sarah Coats, became the initiate of James Penrose, untutored Feb. 3, 1737, who married Sarah Biddle Organizer 15, 1766, and became the initiate of Hon. Mild Biddle Penrose. The manage named was untutored at his father's avow seat concentrated Frankford, Philadelphia, Feb. 20, 1771, and died in St. Louis in 1820. His boyhood was cradled amidst scenes of the Turn, and in his ancient early life he was some as one of two young person poor bearers to one of the zenith companies raised in Philadelphia to accept in that pastime, which select was through to mark that the clarity and self-government pervaded the organic and the old, and stiff to all appearance and conditions. Driven from Philadelphia the same as that borough hew here the hands of the invading foe, he accompanied his widowed mother and an well-regarded uncle (Col. Mild Biddle)
an officer high in the conviction of the durable proceed (George Washington)
who led our armies at Gorge Initiate, and even if but a boy, witnessed and usual in the sufferings of that serious winter, one of the ceiling cheerless periods of the Turn. He acquired a unreserved training in the schools of America and Europe. He was expected by Pres. Jefferson in 1805 one of the land commissioners of Louisiana Plot of land and stimulated to St. Louis, in Oct. of that blind date, after that the head office of the Louisiana nation. He became one of the excessive men of that borough and in 1816 was named as one of the commissioners to get ready the St. Louis mass, the zenith in that region of the avow. He married in 1796 Anna Howard Bingham, the
child of Maj. Charles Bingham by his ensemble Anne Howard, the child of Sheffield Howard, younger brother of the Duke of Norfolk. Their son, Mild Biddle Penrose, was untutored in Philadelphia, Sept. 30, 1802, and died of wan fever 1839 at Pointe Celeste, the plantation of his
father-in-law, concentrated New Orleans, La. Marital, June 3, 1830, Anne, the eldest child of Maj.-Gen. Joseph Biddle Wilkinson, by his ensemble Ann Biddle, untutored at Natchez, Not bother with., July 25, 1808. A son of this manage put together, inexperienced Mild Biddle Penrose, was untutored April 5, 1831, at Pointe Celeste in Plaquemines subdivision. The manage named was knowledgeable by tutors on the plantation of his initiate and graduated with honors at Tulane seminary.
He expert the profession of law very elatedly at New Orleans and in Plaquemines subdivision. His ensemble was Camille Adele Marie Able, untutored in New Orleans, Sept. 26, 1836. Their children were: Mild Biddle Penrose,
George Able Biddle Penrose and Camille Adele Marie Penrose, the zenith named untutored Oct. 6, 1856, died June 17, 1895, and the manage named dying in childhood. George B. Penrose, whose name introduces this inaccurate representation, was untutored in New Orleans Oct. 10, 1857. He acquired his important training in the group schools of this borough and this was supplemented taking into consideration by a course at Bellevue college, Virginia. On desertion his one of the intelligentsia studies at the following business he took a course in concern training at Spirit college in New Orleans. He entered at once here trailer life, sympathy a pad
with a farmhouse of English cotton buyers known as Anderson & Simpson. He packed a post of durable substance and tribute with this farmhouse and remained with them until the concern was discontinued by the death of one of the associates. In the elected representatives of Pres. Cleveland he was expected head of the money order section at New Orleans post-office and
afterwards was with the Combined States light house service for a time. His zenith concern propel on his own inventory was in the cotton press together with his brother, Mild, enthusiastic together the Flame-resistant and Confederacy cotton presses, and with Vincent & Hayne, the Shrill Mississippi Crush Co. He then formed a subject with R. N. Gourdain Smith in the cotton brokerage farmhouse of Smith & Penrose, which had a involvement in any the New York and New Orleans cotton telephone lines. The high prefer in which Mr. Penrose was open in his native borough is indicated by the consequent positions of tribute which he open here: Biased of the Sewerage and Water board, Farmhouse of Impoverishment borough amount outstanding, pilot in the Louisiana Countrywide, Expressway Wake up
& Possibility Co., and the Combined States Happiness Tend and Hoard banks. He took a admirable pay packet in the extroverted life of the borough and was boss of the Mistick Krewe of Comus. He was a enthusiast of the famous Silver league and of the league guards and was lieutenant of the Crescent Rifles the same as that definite won the ruthless regulation from the Chickasaw Guards of Memphis. Mr. Penrose had never unavailable industrious part in politics, but indoors a reform pursuit he was approached by Dr. Henry Dickson Bruns, a excessive enthusiast of the Citizens league and asked if he would run for the pad of borough treasurer, vacated by the death of Gen. Euclid Borland. His trap was durable greatly, as the respectability was unanticipated and undesirable. He well-liked without a moment's angst and went here the unruly joust with abundant others for the nomination, but full of energy and consent of the men who had called him to this pad of respectability and tribute. He was self-ruled by the borough assemblage Nov. 5, 1896, and served the unexpired specify of his precursor (3 existence) indoors Mayor Flower's elected representatives. At the expiration of that time in 1899, he was put aside borough treasurer to bring about himself by the yet liberal collective, and in the rear a very daring pastime for the pad relating Mr. Penrose and Judge Skinner, who was his
challenger, he was self-ruled by a magnificent lion's share, dollop in that capacity with Mayor Capdeville at the time of his death. He had been treasurer for
7 existence, and living a man of affluent concern and government shrewdness, he complete the room to the satisfaction of the respected community. The Times-Democrat of June 7, 1903, in its point on the death of Mr. Penrose said: 'It mettle fit fantastic to belief, to thousands of individuals in New Orleans this crack of dawn, that the cheery, whole-souled, celebrated operate, a man relating men, George B. Penrose, is no more! Who ever came in transactions with him felt the move of his kindness and his captivating actions, untutored of an profound consideration for the sway of others, his accept even of a relation outcast had the effect of making a fast friend. He was so well known, and liked by individuals in all sorts and conditions of life that he literally came to accept the tallness of living the ceiling celebrated man in New Orleans. In fact the industrious and charming character life of Mr. Penrose pervaded the concern and extroverted life of New Orleans. His functioning move was felt in all circles.' The Rag Picayune of the incredibly mull it over said: 'The community mettle learn with devoted repentance of the death of Hon.
George B. Penrose, for the previous 7 existence borough treasurer of New Orleans. Of the multitude excessive men who open group room in modern existence, none accept been chief overall liked than Mr. Penrose. As a group federation in a pad of the very zenith substance, he won shared conviction and
regard, and his death mettle be overall regretted by all classes in the community in which he lived. At the time of his death Mr. Penrose was equitably a organic man, which makes before time death all the exclusive brunt to all who knew him. He has lived in this borough all his life and was meticulously proven with the aims and ambitions of the community. Whether in lineage concern life, or in group room, his fly has been the same as right. Plus him group room was a group tribute and for this incident his death was a group propel." The Louisiana Countrywide mass, of which Mr. Penrose was a valued enthusiast of the board of directors, said: 'Mr.
Penrose is thrilling with love by this board, as that of a colleague, encouraged in life by make somewhere your home impulses which accept contributed distant to the gain of the service in which his energy, reality and shrewdness were customarily felt, and this board mettle customarily preserve in considerate bereavement his well-mannered and splendid reminiscence as a man of affairs which at all mature invited conviction and tribute." A reputation from the members of the Mistick Krewe of Comus, of which he was their valued boss, read: "None knew him but to love him." Being the homesick tidings swept higher the borough that death had stricken down George B. Penrose in the full meridian of his affluent gap expound was nowhere a chief supple musical tones, nor mettle his involvement be chief with awareness enshrined than in the hearts of the Mistick Krewe of Comus, who precious him as their friend and well-regarded him as their boss. And never was a friendship chief without restraint requited nor honors chief estimably borne.
He was a man of unsulied axiom, and a middle full of paramount affections.
In his intercourse with his fellowman, in the something else relations of life, he knew but one faculty of show, and its even bring to bear was never pretentious by any move of toss or grouping. Flaw despondency and without
reproach, he brought to the dramatic piece of each burden, theoretical commotion and nation game to every inquire and seriousness of time which never faltered, a consistency which never wavered and the span of his toughness was at all mature the examine of his generosity. His city note of which the world took communication, and spoils communication esteemed, was but the unconscious of the multitude fortunate virtues of middle and custody, which won and retained the love of make somewhere your home whose good grouping brought them within the wan of his friendship.
His frequent rule was "Ubique Fideles" which fitted so worthily the man who was "customarily unswerving." Nov. 16, 1887, Mr. Penrose was mutual in inarriage to Laura Mary Elizabeth, the charming and experienced child of Arthur Ambrose and Elizabeth Jane (Armstrong) Maginnis. Her initiate was a native of Baltimore, Md., and lived in New Orleans for 35 existence. Her mother was untutored at New Castle-on-Tyne, England. Mr. Penrose vanished 2 children; Laura Adele Marie, married Mr. Harris Phelps Ralston, whose frequent came key from Springfield, Quantity., and taking into consideration of New York, and George Biddle Brickell Penrose. Their frequent life was in every way flawless, and Mr.
Penrose was an attentive and hot other half, and contemplative for the welfare of his children.
NOTE: Innovative origin includes a photograph of Mr. Penrose
