History of Zelienople, (Butler County) Pennsylvania United States of America

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George Frederick William Holls, diplomatist, was born at Zelienople, Pa., July 1, I857; son of the Rev. Dr. George Charles and Louise (Burx) Hells, and grandson of Ludwig and Sophia (Von Horn) Hells, and of Christian and Dorothea (Pfaff) Burx. His father came to America in 1850 and settled in Pennsylvania. He was graduated from Columbia college, A.B., 1878; LL.B., 1880, and practised law in New York city. He was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for state senator in 1883, a delegate at large to the New York constitutional convention of 1894, where he was chairman of the committee on education, and later a commissioner on the government of cities of the third class. He was prominently connected with the work of the Legal Aid society and of the Charity Organization society of New York city. He was secretary and counsel of the American commission at the peace conference that met at The Hague in 1899, being the only American member of the sub-committee on arbitration, and the author of the article on "Special Mediation" in the arbitration project. He secured the assent of the German government to the establishment of a permanent court of arbitration. He received the degree of D.C.L. from the University of Leipzig in 1898. He is the author of: Franz Lieber (1884); Sancta Sophia and Troitza (1888); Compulsory Voting (1891), and many contributions to periodicals. He died in Yonkers, N.Y., July 23, 1903.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Zelienople, (Butler County) Pennsylvania

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