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 HUDSON COUNTY, NEW JERSEY dent of Hitchings & Company, greenhouse manufacturers and heating specialists, of Elizabeth, New Jersey. He married, in 1912, Louise Smith, of a prominent fam- ily of Elizabeth, New Jersey. HOLLINGSHEAD, Rev. George Given, Clergyman. Among the active and public-spirited citizens of Jersey City, New Jersey, is Rev. George Given Hollingshead, who since 1915 has devoted his time and his ability to community and inter-church work, Mr. Hollingshead was a grandson of Rev. James H. Hollingshead, whocame to this country as a boy, and in 1840 settled in Pittsburgh. Among the children of James H. Hollingshead was Rev. John S. Hollingshead, who was born in Pennsy]l- vania, October 12, 1860, and is now living in Rock Creek, Ohio, where he is pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church. Rev. John S. Hollingshead married Emma Given, who was born in Ireland, and they are the parents of seven children, all liv- ing: Rev. George Given, of further men- tion; Ella W.; James W.; Frank E.; Paul E.; Philip B.; and John A. Rev. George Given Hollingshead was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, No- vember I, 1886. He removed with his parents to other towns in Eastern Ohio, where his father served as pastor. In the _ public schools he received his early pre- paratory education, and then became a student in Franklin College, at New Athens, Ohio, from which he was gradu- ated in 1907. He was now ready to begin his professional study, and he matricu- lated in Drew Theological Seminary, at Madison, New Jersey, from which he was graduated in 1911. After graduation, he further prepared for service as a pastor by taking post-graduate work at Colum- bia University. Meantime, in 1909, he had been ordained, and his first charge was at East Liverpool, Ohio, where he remained for one year, and then returned to Scotch Plains, New Jersey, where he ministered to a small congregation for two years. At the end of that time came a call to a larger field of service. He was made assistant pastor of the Roseville Methodist Episcopal Church, at Newark, where he served for two years, winning the esteem of the parishioners of the Roseville church. His next call took him to Fort Lee, New Jersey, and when that pastorate ended, he entered upon his present work as pastor of the St. Paul’s Methodist Episcopal Church, in Jersey City. He had become deeply interested in the community movement, and in inter- church work, and in Jersey City organ- ized the Good Will Community Center, located at the corner of Jersey avenue and Third street. As the activities of the Center widened, Mr. Hollingshead also organized the Good Will Industries of New Jersey. He has been especially suc- cessful in this interesting and modern field of labor, and has won, in a very high degree, the esteem of all with whom he has been associated. His wide sym- _pathies reach out not only to his own denomination, but to those of other reli- gious belief as well. He has been espe- cially interested in the Inter-Church World Movement, and during the special campaign made under that name he served as superintendent of the city sur- veys. Every man must have some recre- ation if he is to accomplish well his work, and Mr. Hollingshead finds healthful out- of-door exercise in playing golf. He is a member of the Montclair Golf and Coun- try Club, and, fraternally, he is affiliated with the Masonic order, and with Gamma Sigma. He also finds recreation of an- other type in writing verse. Few men in 702