Penrose, Boies
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, United States senator, was born Nov. 1, 1860, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was elected to the Pennsylvania house of representatives from the eighth Philadelphia district in 1884.
In connection with Edward P. Allinson he wrote, at the request of Johns Hopkins university, for the university studies in historical and political science, a History of the City Government of Philadelphia. He was elected to the Pennsylvania state senate from the sixth Philadelphia district in 1886, re-elected in 1890, and again in 1894. He was elected president pro tempore of the senate in 1889, and re-elected in 1891. He was elected to the United States senate as a republican to succeed J. Donald Cameron, and took his seat March 4, 1897. His term of service will expire March 3, 1903.
PENROSE, RICHARD ALEXANDER FULLERTON, educator, physician, surgeon, was born March 24, 1827, in Carlisle, Pa. In 1863 he became professor of obstetrics and of the diseases of women and children in the university of Pennsylvania, which post he still holds. He is one of the founders of the Children's hospital of Philadelphia, the American Gynæcological society, and the Gynacean hospital.
PENTECOST, GEORGE FREDERICK, clergyman, author, was born Sept. 23, 1843, in Albion, Ill. He was a congregational minister in Brooklyn in 1881-90, and subsequently an evangelist in America and England. He is the author of The Angel in the Marble; In the Volume of the Book; Out of Egypt; The Christian and the Modern Dance; Bible Studies; The Gospel of Luke; and Grace Abounding in the Forgiveness of Sins.
PEPPER, GEORGE DANA BOARD- MAN, educator, clergyman, college president, author, was born Feb. 5, 1833, in Ware, Mass. He is a baptist clergyman and educator, president of Colby university from 1882; and the author of Outlines of Theology.