Introduction

Biography

Son of Samuel Warburton and Elizabeth Jones, Warburton emigrated to America with his parents in 1869.

The family settled in Brockport, New York, where George left school as a young teenager to work with his father, a blacksmith. Shortly after leaving school, he came to Christ; he served as a Wesleyan lay preacher on weekends, becoming known as the boy preacher of Central New York. He tried to make up for leaving school by reading widely. In October 1881, he married Louise H. Johnson in Port Byron, New York.

Warburton was a pioneer in the American Young Men’s Christian Association, before being recruited to advance the organization in Canada, including fund raising and expansion in Toronto.

Works

• George Alonzo Hall: A Tribute to Consecrated Personality (New York: 1905)
• A Typical General Secretary: The Life of Edwin F. See (New York: 1908)
• The Life of Things, 1908