The New York Herald, 29 August 1895
 

OBITUARY
The Rev. George C Hitchens, eighty years old, a retired Methodist clergyman, died at his home, in Passaic, N. J., on Tuesday. He was born in Cornwall, England, and came to this country at the age of fourteen. He had charge of churches, at various times, at Camden, Staten Island, Millville, Glassboro, Red Bank, Pen’s Grove, Pennington and Woodbury.

Contributed by Bob Bolitho