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George Lovich Pierce Wren, known as G. L. P. Wren (January 10, 1836 – February 8, 1901), was a native Georgian〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=George Lovich Pierce Wren )〕 who served from 1884 to 1892 as a Democrat in the Louisiana House of Representatives as the sole member from his adopted Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana. His tenure corresponded with the administrations of Governors Samuel Douglas McEnery and Francis T. Nicholls.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Membership of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812 - Current: Webster Parish )〕 ==Biography== From 1892 to 1896, he and W. A. Stroud represented Bienville, Bossier, Claiborne, and Webster parishes in the Louisiana State Senate during the first term of Governor Murphy J. Foster, Sr.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Membership of the Louisiana State Senate since 1880: Bienville, Bossier, Claiborne, and Webster parishes )〕 In 1892, Senator Wren fought with Representative Nicholas J. Sandlin of Minden to abolish the Louisiana State Lottery Company. Wren was born in Putnam County in central Georgia but relocated to Minden, the seat of government of Webster Parish, where he lived until his death at the age of sixty-five. He was a second lieutenant in the Louisiana infantry of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.〔 He enlisted at Camp Moore in Tangipahoa Parish with the "Minden Blues" for a period of twelve months. Nicholas Sandlin had also been part of "The Blues". He fought in the Battle of Antietam. From 1864 to 1865, he was a prisoner of war at Fort Delaware in Delaware. Released after he swore an oath to support the government of the United States, he returned to Webster Parish where he engaged in farming.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=George Lovich Pierce Wren )〕 He and his wife, the former Ellen Carr (1846-1941), a native of Chambers County in eastern Alabama, had seven children, Robert Lee Wren (1869-1871), Livick Pierce Wren (1871-1956), Atticus Asbury Wren (1874-1939), Marcus Dee Wren, Sr. (1876-1952), Floyd Carr Wren (1880-1967), Ernest Septimus Wren (1882-1887), and Ava Gertrude Wren (1885-1950).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ellen Carr Wren )〕 Marcus Wren represented Minden on the Webster Parish Police Jury, the parish governing body, from 1920 to 1925.〔''Respect for the Past; Confidence in the Future: Webster Parish Centennial'', Webster Parish Police Jury, 1971, p. 13〕 Dr. Floyd Wren graduated from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee and practiced dentistry in Jonesboro in Jackson Parish, where he was the mayor, and in Winnfield in Winn Parish, where he was a member of the city council, the school board, and was the registrar of voters from 1940 to 1948. He retired from dentistry in 1945 because of arthritis and operated a dairy in Winnfield for a number of years thereafter. Dr. Wren and his wife are interred at Winnfield Cemetery. Grandson Marcus Dee Wren, Jr. (born 1924), is a retired dairyman and tree farmer in Webster Parish.He was named "Dairyman of the Year" in 1976.〔"Minden is proud of Wren", ''Minden Press-Herald'', April 7, 1976, p. 1〕 His wife, Gay Stewart Wren (1928-2011), was a granddaughter of William G. Stewart, namesake of the former William G. Stewart Elementary School in Minden. Wren, his wife, and other family members are interred at Pine Gove Methodist Cemetery north of Minden.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「G. L. P. Wren」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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