George H. Kinter (1857-1922) was born in Pennsylvania and died in Los Angeles, California. He worked as a clerk for the Lackawanna Railroad, moved to Detroit, Michigan, in 1880, and moved to Buffalo, New York, in 1885. He married Elizabeth R. Kinter (b. Lester) in Detroit in 1886. Kinter suffered from ill-health, and experienced healing in 1887 by reading a copy of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures lent to him by his mother-in-law who had also experienced healing. In 1888, he took Primary class instruction from Annie V. C. Leavitt, a student of Mary Baker Eddy's, and two years later he began devoting himself full time to Christian Science healing. The Kinters joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1893, with George doing so in April and Elizabeth in July. He was active in the local church in Buffalo and was local correspondent to the Committee on Publication for New York in 1901. That same year, he took the Normal class taught by Edward A. Kimball in the Board of Education of The First Church of Christ, Scientist. In December 1903, he was called by Eddy to serve as a secretary in her household at Pleasant View, where he served for 15 months and then on several other occasions through 1910. In 1906, the Kinters moved to Chicago, Illinois, where Kinter taught and healed until they moved to Pasadena, California, in 1920. Kinter was listed in the directory of The Christian Science Journal as a Christian Science practitioner in Buffalo from 1891-1905 and as a practitioner and teacher in Chicago from 1906-1919.

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