Rash's Surname Index
Notes for George Grossman LENNIG
George Grossman Lennig, second son of Frederick and Ellen Douglas (Thompson) Lennig, was born in Philadelphia, July 24, 1838. He was educated at the Episcopal Academy and in the academical department of the University of Pennsylvania, and was early in life associated with his father in the conduct of his business as an importer of Chinese, Japanese, and East Indian merchandise, which business was established by Nicolas Lennig in 1819, and continued by Frederick Lennig, who came to Philadelphia in 1824. George G. Lennig succeeded to the business at the death of his father in 1863, and has carried it on successfully to the present time. He was a member of the Union League and Philadelphia clubs; is an active member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Society Sons of the Revolution, the Society of Mayflower Descendants, the New England Society of Philadelphia, the Society of Descendants of Colonial Governors, the Society of Colonial Wars, of the Delta Phi Fraternity, and of the St. Elmo and University Barge clubs. Mr. Lennig is a member of the First Class of the Order of Runnymede, entering through eighteen direct lines.
Mr. Lennig has for many years been an intelligent and discriminating collector of rare publications and manuscripts, and is the owner of quite an unique collection of antiquities in this line. He also has a large number of portraits of his distinguished ancestors, painted by celebrated artists.
George Grossman Lennig early became indentified with the Masonic fraternity; he was Worshipful Master of Cassia Lodge of Ardmore, Pennsylvania, and has taken all the degrees up to the thirty-second in Ancient Scottish Rite Masonry, and has filled many of the high official positions in the various branches of the Order.
George Grossman Lennig married, February 2, 1857, Margaret, daughter of Edmund and Margaret (O'Connor) Birmingham.
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