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.

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}.)