Henry George Jr.

The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume IV G George, James Zachariah page 267 GEORGE, Henry, editor, was born in Sacramento, Cal., Nov. 3, 1862; son of Henry and Annie C. (Fox) George; and grandson of Richard Samuel Henry and Catharine Pratt (Vallance) George. He was educated in the public schools and when seventeen years old went to work as a printer. He was also amanuensis to his father, copying by hand almost the entire book manuscript of "Progress and Poverty." He was a reporter on the Brooklyn Eagle in 1881, and became a staff editor and special correspondent at Washington and London, of New York and other newspapers. On the sudden death of his father, Oct. 29, 1897, during the progress of the Greater [p.267] New York mayoralty campaign, he was unanimously chosen as his father's successor to the candidacy of the Jeffersonian Democratic party, but in the election he could not command his father's probable vote. He was married at Chicago, Ill., in 1897 to Marie Morel Hitch of that city. After his father's death he engaged in passing through the press a new and complete edition of his father's works and in writing the full story of his father's life, 1901.

US Congressman, Journalist. Elected as a Democrat to represent New York's 17th and 21st Districts in the Sixty-second and Sixty-third Congresses, he served from 1911 to 1915. The son of famed political economist Henry George, he was born in Sacramento, California and moved with his parents to Brooklyn, New York in 1880. The following year he launched his professional career as a reporter for the Brooklyn Eagle. He was a political correspondent for a West Coast newspaper syndicate in Washington DC (1891) and England (1892), and managing editor of the Florida Citizen in Jacksonville (1893 to 1895), before settling in Manhattan. When his father died while running for New York City Mayor in 1897, George was unsuccessfully nominated to replace him as his party's candidate. Apart from his two terms in the US House, and a stint as a special correspondent in Japan (1906), the rest of his life was devoted to writing on political and economic subjects. He died in Washington after a long illness.

Henry married Marie Morel Septima Hitch, daughter of Capt. Ebenezer Vose Hitch and Mary Beatrice Field, on 02 Dec 1897 in Chicago, Cook Co., IL.¹ (Marie Morel Septima Hitch was born on 22 Jan 1879 in Orleans Parish, LA,^{1 2} died on 29 Jun 1969 in Pasadena, Los Angeles Co., CA and was buried about 02 Jul 1969 in Green-Wood Cemetery, Greenwood Heights, Kings Co., NY.)