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Person · 1842-1911

George Henry Voorhis was born on December 27, 1842, to Salome DeRonde and Lucas Voorhis near Hackensack, New Jersey. He entered the Normal School in Trenton in 1861 and graduated in 1862. On July 16, 1864, he married Jane Amanda Tindall. He worked as teacher and later, an administrator for several years in New Jersey. By 1868, he was the principal of Bordentown Public School (New Jersey). He received a state certificate for teaching first grade in 1880. He left Bordentown in 1881, and by the late 1880s, he was the principal of Trenton Public Schools’ Centennial School until 1902, when he retired early to Ocean Grove, New Jersey, due to poor health. He later returned to Trenton, where he died on May 14, 1911.