Biography

07/21/1806 - 08/03/1888


PENROSE, James, a Representative from Chester County; born, July 21, 1806 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa.; farmer; iron manufacturer; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1856; died, August 3, 1888 in Coatesville, Chester County, Pennsylvania; interred, Fairview Cemetery, Coatesville, Chester County, Pennsylvania. 


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