a Republican, and he served until his death. During his second tenure in the State Senate, Penrose was accused of using bribes to arrange the election of Simon Cameron to the United States Senate, but nothing was proved and he was not charged with wrongdoing. Death and legacy Penrose died of pneumonia in Harrisburg on April 6, 1857. He is buried at Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia. Another man of the same name, who died in 1875, is also buried at that same cemetery, and may be the commissary officer, Captain Charles B. Penrose, who accompanied President Abraham Lincoln as he toured City Point shortly before the fall of Richmond, Virginia. Several of Penrose's grandsons became notable within their fields. His namesake Charles Bingham Penrose was a Philadelphia gynecologist who became widely known for his surgical skill. Boies Penrose became a U.S. Senator. Grandsons R.A.F. Penrose and Spencer Penrose also achieved distinction, the former for his geologic surveys and entrepreneurial activity in Texas, Arkansas and Colorado as well as founding of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, the latter for founding many mining and financial companies in Colorado as well as the Pike's Peak Chapter of the American Red Cross. The naturalist Spencer Fullerton Baird, first named curator and Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, was his nephew. References 1798 births 1857 deaths Lawyers from Philadelphia People from Carlisle, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Whigs 19th-century American politicians Pennsylvania Republicans Pennsylvania state senators Pennsylvania lawyers Presidency of William Henry Harrison Presidency of John Tyler United States Department of the Treasury officials Deaths from pneumonia in Pennsylvania Burials at Laurel Hill Cemetery (Philadelphia)