Whittington, George Purnell, 1881-1932.

George Purnell Whittington, born in 1881 in Alexandria, Louisiana, attended Tulane University and was admitted to the bar in 1901. He practised law in Alexandria and also found himself drawn to the histories of Rapides Parish and central Louisiana. Due to loss of many of the parish's records during the Ciivil War, Whittington's papers remain one of the more comprehensive collections with regard to the history of central Louisiana. He wrote biographies of Dr. John Sibley, and Governor Thomas Overton Moore, and histories of Rapides Parish. He died in 1932.

From the description of G. P. Whittington papers, 1804-1932. (Tulane University). WorldCat record id: 422727854