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De Renne Georgia Library
The De Renne Georgia Library is a building at the Wormsloe Historic Site, a former plantation, in Isle of Hope, Georgia, United States. Completed in 1907, to a Classical Revival design by Henrik Wallin and Edward Warren Young, the building contained a large library of the history of Georgia, a collection begun by George Wymberley Jones De Renne and continued by his son, Wymberley Jones De Renne. The library contains the most complete collection of printed Georgia history for the period spanning 1700 to 1929. Although the building is named for Wymberley Jones De Renne, he dedicated it to Noble Jones, the 1739 founder of Wormsloe. In 1922, the library, which is housed in a fireproof structure, was described as "the most complete private state historical collection in existence." De Renne died in 1916, and his son, Wymberley Wormsloe De Renne, became the curator of the library, intent on completing what his father had started. He gave free rein to historian Leonard L. Macka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wymberley Jones De Renne
Wymberley Jones De Renne (September 23, 1853 – June 23, 1916) was an American preservationist. He became a noted collector of literature on the history of the State of Georgia. In 1922, it was described as "the most complete private state historical collection in existence." Early life De Renne was born in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1853, the first surviving child of George Wymberley Jones De Renne and Mary Wallace Nuttall. His parents' first-born, a son, died in infancy. The family lived at the Wormsloe Plantation in Savannah, Georgia, which De Renne inherited upon the death of his father in 1880. He rented the estate from the Pennsylvania Company for almost 25 years and had it running as a working farm. He studied abroad, at Leipzig University and the University of Strasbourg, before graduating from Columbia Law School in 1876. Personal life In 1880, De Renne married Laura Norris Camblos. It was his bride's second marriage, Laura's first husband—William Pepper N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |