a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born at Avon Springs, N.Y., April 22, 1824. He was educated at the Wesleyan Seminary, Lima, joined the Genesee Conference in 1847, in which, and in the East Genesee, Missouri, Central New York, West Virginia, and Rock River conferences, he occupied important positions until his death, at Englewood, near Chicago, Illinois, August 7, 1885. Dr. George was often a member of the General Conference, and distinguished as a man of patriotic and ecclesiastical influence. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1885, page 337; Simpson, Cyclop. of Methodism, s.v.