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- [S1537] Obituary Record of the Graduates of Yale College Deceased during the Academical Year ending in June, 1877, including the record of a few who died a short time previous hitherto unreported. Presented at the meeting of the Alumni, June 27, 1877. No. 7 of, p. 259. mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1859_1924/1876-77.pdf.
GEORGE TOMLINSON was born in that part of Derby which is now the town of Seymour, Conn., Feb. 5, 1806 [sic], the son of Abijah and Betsey Tomlinson. In 1808 his parents removed to New Preston, in Washington, Conn, whence he entered college, not however beginning his preparation until past his majority.
After graduation he spent three years in the Yale Divinity School, and after brief engagements as a preacher in New Preston, and in St Johnsbury, Vt, became in Jan, 1839, principal of the academy in Bellport, L.I. While in this position he took charge of the Presbyterian church in South Haven, a parish in the town of Brook Haven, L.I., where he was ordained pastor, Sept. 9, 1840. He remained here until October, 1852, and in February, 1854, he took charge of the Presbyterian Church in Pendleton, Niagara county, N.Y., where he continued until his return to New Preston, in March, 1860. For two years he supplied the pulpit of the First church there, and then on the death of his father settled in the family homestead, in the village of Marbledale, where he resided till his death, July 16, 1876, aged 70. He had been for some two years in poor health, and in the early spring of 1876 was attacked with diabetes, after which he declined gradually until still further prostrated by a fever a few days before his death.
He was married, April 13, 1841, to Miss Anne M. Taylor, of Warren, Conn. She died after a lingering illness, Sept. 17, 1865. Their only son is still living.
- [S169] FindAGrave, online [http://www.findagrave.com/index.html ], accessed, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=40863742.
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