George Birkhoff, Jr., was born May 15, 1852, near Rotterdam, Kingdom of the Netherlands. He was educated at the Normal School in Rotterdam and moved in 1869 with his parents to Chicago. In 1871 he entered the real estate office of W.D. Kerfoot & Co., in Chicago, as a clerk, afterwards became book-keeper and cashier and was, in 1883, admitted as a partner. He is still engaged in the real estate business as a partner of the firm of W.D. Kerfoot & Co. In 1884 he was appointed as consular agent of the Netherlands at Chicago and in 1886 was appointed by the King of the Netherlands as consul for most of the Western States. This consulate has two vice-consulates, one at Grand Rapids, Mich., and the other at St. Paul, Minn. In July, 1892, he was appointed by the government of the Netherlands as Royal Commissioner General of the Netherlands at the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago, which position as well as that of consul he still occupies.

Source: The Columbian Exposition and World's Fair Illustrated, Descriptive, Historical, Statistical (1893)

George Birkhoff, Jr., was born May 15, 1852, near Rotterdam, Kingdom of the Netherlands. He was educated at the Normal School in Rotterdam and moved in 1869 with his parents to Chicago. In 1871 he entered the real estate office of W.D. Kerfoot & Co., in Chicago, as a clerk, afterwards became book-keeper and cashier and was, in 1883, admitted as a partner. He is still engaged in the real estate business as a partner of the firm of W.D. Kerfoot & Co. In 1884 he was appointed as consular agent of the Netherlands at Chicago and in 1886 was appointed by the King of the Netherlands as consul for most of the Western States. This consulate has two vice-consulates, one at Grand Rapids, Mich., and the other at St. Paul, Minn. In July, 1892, he was appointed by the government of the Netherlands as Royal Commissioner General of the Netherlands at the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago, which position as well as that of consul he still occupies.

Source: The Columbian Exposition and World's Fair Illustrated, Descriptive, Historical, Statistical (1893)