George Edwin Rines (December 28, 1860, Maitland,

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- November 30, 1951,

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who grew up and worked in the

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Biography

Coming to the United States when 11 years old, his early education was obtained in the public schools of

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. For several years after graduation from the high school there he was engaged in mercantile life, but in 1887 resumed his studies at

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. In 1890, he entered the full

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course in theology and was graduated from the Hamilton Theological Seminary in 1893. He was for two years pastor at

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, afterward accepting a call to the pastorate of the First Baptist Church of

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, where he remained for three years. He resigned from the ministry in 1899 to devote himself to literary work, and has been a frequent contributor to religious and other periodicals. In 1903, he was appointed managing editor of the ''

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'', to which he contributed many articles. Subsequently Rines was managing editor of the United Editors ''Encyclopedia'', and in 1910-11 was general editor of ''The Foundation Library for Young People''. From 1913 to 1915, Rines was managing editor of ''The German Classics'', and after 1916 was editor-in-chief of the second edition of ''Encyclopedia Americana''.

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at Johns Hopkins University. It gives a date of death; but it gives 1858 as the date of birth. ;Attribution *

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