George Beswick Hynson, Sr. (April 2, 1862 - before 1938) was lawyer, writer, poet, and newspaper editor at the Peninsula News and Advertiser. He was the Progressive Party

Progressive Party (United States, 1912)

The Progressive Party of 1912 was an American political party. It was formed after a split in the Republican Party between President William Howard Taft and former President Theodore Roosevelt....

 candidate for the Governor of Delaware in 1912.

Biography

He was born on April 2, 1862 to Garrett Lee Hynson and Ellen Postles. He taught elocution

Elocution

Elocution is the study of formal speaking in pronunciation, grammar, style, and tone.-History:In Western classical rhetoric, elocution was one of the five core disciplines of pronunciation, which was the art of delivering speeches. Orators were trained not only on proper diction, but on the proper...

 at the University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...

 in 1897. He was the author of the state song, Our Delaware

Our Delaware

Our Delaware is a poem written by George Beswick Hynson, published in 1906. It comprises three verses, each honoring one of Delaware's three counties, with the fourth verse added by Donn Devine commemorating the American Revolution Bicentennial in 1976. It became the state song in 1925 by an act...

. He was buried in the Odd Fellows Cemetery in Delaware.

Publications

• The practical treatment of stammering and stuttering (1902) with George Andrew Lewis
• Advanced elocution (1896) with Mrs. J. W. Shoemaker and John Hendricks Bechtel