George Beswick Hynson

George Beswick Hynson Sr. (April 2, 1862 – December 5, 1926) was an American lawyer, writer, poet, and newspaper editor at the Peninsula News and Advertiser.^[1]^[2] He was the Progressive Party candidate for the Governor of Delaware in 1912.^[2]^[3]

Biography

He was born in Milford, Delaware on April 2, 1862, to Garrett Lee Hynson and Ellen Postles.^[4] He taught elocution at the University of Pennsylvania in 1897.^[4]^[5] He was the author of the state song, Our Delaware. He later worked as a head of an advertising company in Philadelphia, where he died in 1926.^[6] He was buried in the Odd Fellows Cemetery in Delaware.^[7]^[8]

Publications

The Practical Treatment of Stammering and Stuttering: With Suggestions for Practice and Helpful Exercises (1902) with George Andrew Lewis
Advanced Elocution (1896) with Mrs. J. W. Shoemaker and John Hendricks Bechtel

References

^ Henry Clay Conrad (1908). History of the state of Delaware. Published by the author. p. 1110. In 1872 Dr. John S. Prettyman consolidated "Our Mutual Friend" and "The Peninsula News and Advertiser" in one publication, under the latter title, associating with himself Dr. C. W. Davidson as editor, and William P. Corsa as publisher.
^ ^a ^b John Allen Gable (1978). The Bull Moose years. National Univ. Publ. ISBN 9780804691871.
^ "George B. Hynson". Political Graveyard. Retrieved 2009-08-01. Hynson, George B. — Progressive. Candidate for Governor of Delaware, 1912. Burial location unknown.
^ ^a ^b Reamy, Martha; Reamy, Bill. Genealogical Abstracts from Biographical and Genealogical History of the State of Delaware. p. 361. ISBN 9780788437359. Retrieved 2009-08-01.
^ Catalogue of the University of Pennsylvania. University of Pennsylvania. 1897. p. 38. George Beswick Hynson, Instructor In Public Speaking
^ "G. B. Hynson is Death Victim". The Evening Journal. December 6, 1926. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2023.
^ Delaware. Federal Writers' Project. 1938. ISBN 9781603540087. Odd Fellows Cemetery, W. side of N. Walnut St. near the town limits, contains the graves of George Beswick Hynson
^ Henry Garfield Alsberg (1955). Delaware: a guide to the first State. Odd Fellows Cemetery, W. side of N. Walnut St. near the town limits, contains the graves of George Beswick Hynson

Party political offices
First Progressive Party established	Progressive nominee for Governor of Delaware 1912	Succeeded by none

[1] Henry Clay Conrad (1908). History of the state of Delaware. Published by the author. p. 1110. In 1872 Dr. John S. Prettyman consolidated "Our Mutual Friend" and "The Peninsula News and Advertiser" in one publication, under the latter title, associating with himself Dr. C. W. Davidson as editor, and William P. Corsa as publisher.

[bull-2] John Allen Gable (1978). The Bull Moose years. National Univ. Publ. ISBN 9780804691871.

[3] "George B. Hynson". Political Graveyard. Retrieved 2009-08-01. Hynson, George B. — Progressive. Candidate for Governor of Delaware, 1912. Burial location unknown.

[abstracts-4] Reamy, Martha; Reamy, Bill. Genealogical Abstracts from Biographical and Genealogical History of the State of Delaware. p. 361. ISBN 9780788437359. Retrieved 2009-08-01.

[5] Catalogue of the University of Pennsylvania. University of Pennsylvania. 1897. p. 38. George Beswick Hynson, Instructor In Public Speaking

[6] "G. B. Hynson is Death Victim". The Evening Journal. December 6, 1926. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2023.

[7] Delaware. Federal Writers' Project. 1938. ISBN 9781603540087. Odd Fellows Cemetery, W. side of N. Walnut St. near the town limits, contains the graves of George Beswick Hynson

[8] Henry Garfield Alsberg (1955). Delaware: a guide to the first State. Odd Fellows Cemetery, W. side of N. Walnut St. near the town limits, contains the graves of George Beswick Hynson

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