Introduction
Born: February 24, 1821, Waterbury, Connecticut.
Died: March 16, 1885, Manhattan, New York.
Buried: Saint Paul’s Churchyard, Manhattan, New York.
Born: February 24, 1821, Waterbury, Connecticut.
Died: March 16, 1885, Manhattan, New York.
Buried: Saint Paul’s Churchyard, Manhattan, New York.
George was the son of Alpheus Geer and Sarah W. Marshall.
He graduated from Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut (1842), and the General Theological Seminary, New York City (1845).
He received the degree of S. T. D. from Columbia University, and of D.D. from Union in 1862.
He served as rector of Christ Church, Ballston Spa, New York; associate rector of the Church of the Holy Apostles, New York (1859); and rector of St. Timothy’s, New York (1866).
He was the first president of the Free Church Guild of New York, and a member of the General Convention of 1874.