George Beswick Hynson

George Beswick Hynson circa 1912

George Beswick Hynson, Sr. (April 2, 1862 – before 1938) was a 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 on April 2, 1862 to Garrett Lee Hynson and Ellen Postles.^[4] He taught elocution at the University of Pennsylvania in 1897.^[4][4][5] He was the author of the state song, Our Delaware. He was buried in the Odd Fellows Cemetery in Delaware.^[6][7]

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

1. Henry Clay Conrad (1908). History of the state of Delaware. 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.
2. John Allen Gable. The Bull Moose years.
3. "George B. Hynson". Political Graveyard. Retrieved 2009-08-01. Hynson, George B. — Progressive. Candidate for Governor of Delaware, 1912. Burial location unknown.
4. Genealogical Abstracts from Biographical and Genealogical History of the State of Delaware. p. 361. 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. Delaware. Federal Writers' Project. 1938. Odd Fellows Cemetery, W. side of N. Walnut St. near the town limits, contains the graves of George Beswick Hynson
7. 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