George Beswick Hynson

George Beswick Hynson Sr. was an American lawyer, writer, poet, and newspaper editor at the Peninsula News and Advertiser. He was the Progressive Party candidate for the Governor of Delaware in 1912.

Biography

He was born in Milford, Delaware on April 2, 1862, to Garrett Lee Hynson and Ellen Postles. He taught elocution at the University of Pennsylvania in 1897. 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. He was buried in the Odd Fellows Cemetery in Delaware.

Publications

with George Andrew Lewis
with Mrs. J. W. Shoemaker and John Hendricks Bechtel