George C. Connell (1815-1871)

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George C. Connell

Biography

George C. Connell is the father of Horatio Pennock Connell, and the grandfather of Joseph Richards Connell and John Connell.

Elected in 1859 to the State Senate of Pennsylvania from the Fourth Senatorial District of Pennsylvania, comprising West Philadelphia and Germantown.

George Connell organized the Mount Moriah Cemetery Association of Philadelphia in 1854.

George Connell married his first cousin, Elizabeth Pennock (likewise descended).

Toward the end of his public career of some twelve years' duration, Senator Connell brought forth a measure,which to him perhaps would have been the most gratifying of his long and successful career, namely, the "Fairmount Park Commission," and though no tablet or marker has been erected to commemorate his name with that great pleasure ground, or with the many laws of the Commonwealth associated with his name, nonetheless, still there stands forever a monument to this practical idealism, to many years of almost exclusive devotion to the affairs of the State, to his consummate parliamentary ability, to his desire to be of service to humanity, namely, a great and widely known place of recreation, of its kind one of the noblest in the world, with its health giving properties, its beautiful scenery and loveliness beyond description -- just Fairmount Park.

Source: Pennocks of Primitive Hall

Obituary

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Notes

Some burial information obtained from Mount Moriah Cemetery Records 1856-1978, Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA