Columbia County PA Archives Biographies.....HEMINGWAY, George H. 1858 - living in 1899
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  REV. GEORGE H. HEMINGWAY, who was called to the pastorate of the Presbyterian
  Church of Bloomsburg February 19, 1897, has won his way into the hearts of his
  parishioners by the conscientious manner in which he labors to elevate the moral
  and social condition of the church and community at large. He is a native of
  England, having been born in Yorkshire, February 4, 1858, and is a son of Joseph
  and Sarah (Furniss) Hemingway. The Hemingways are an old and well-known family
  of West Riding, Yorkshire, England, where for many years they have been chiefly
  engaged in mining pursuits.
  
    Joseph Hemingway, the father of our subject, who is now living in retirement,
  was engaged in mining and the manufacture of bricks. He formed a matrimonial
  alliance with Sarah Furniss and they became the proud parents of a son, George
  H., a record of whose life is here given.
  
    Rev. George H. Hemingway, after completing his academic education, took up
  theological studies under Drs. Milner and Bennett of Huddersfield, and later
  passed the examination at the Sunderland Theological Institute in England in
  1880. In 1882 he left his native soil and sought a home in freedom-loving
  America. He went to Kansas and was licensed to preach in the Wesleyan Methodist
  Church at Beloit, Kans., September 20, 1884, remaining there one year. He moved
  to College Springs, Iowa, where he held a charge for three and one-half years,
  and in October, 1889, he united with the Presbyterian Church, in which he
  preached for one year at Mapleton, N. D. Again returning to Iowa, lie became
  pastor of the Presbyterian Church at West Branch for three years, and for one
  year preached at Tipton. His next charge was the First Church of Carthage, Mo.,
  which he held for three or four years, and on February 19, 1897, he was called
  to his present pastorate, that of the Presbyterian Church of Bloomsburg. In
  June, 1897, the degree of D. D. was conferred upon him by the Presbyterian
  College at Hastings, N. D.
  
    Dr. Hemingway is of a kind and sympathetic disposition and has made friends
  rapidly in the various communities in which he has lived. On July 29, 1883, he
  and Sarah Swift, a daughter of Dean Swift and a native of Mirfield, Eng., took
  the marriage vows, and they are the happy parents of four children: Reginald S.;
  Vera E.; Rowland F.; and Harold G.
  
  
  
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  Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District
  Published by 
  Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)
  
  
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