Husband George Besore 1 2
Born: 21 Dec 1799 - Washington Twp, Franklin Co, PA 1 2
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Died: 16 Aug 1871 - Waynesboro, Franklin Co, PA 1 2
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Father: David Besore ( - ) 1
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Marriage: 16 Sep 1830 1 2
Wife Eliza Snively 1 2
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Died: Aft 1887
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Father: Jacob Snively (1776- ) 3 4
Mother: Elizabeth Stoner ( - ) 2
Children
1 F Clara Anna Besore 5 6
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Spouse: Dr. Abraham H. Strickler (1840- ) 6 7
Marr: 24 Feb 1870 1 8
2 M Alfred Besore 1 2
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Died: while young
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Spouse: Did Not Marry
General Notes: Husband - George Besore
Waynesboro, Franklin Co, PA
Early in life he became a merchant, which seems to have been a favorite occupation for this family, because Jacob, Jeremiah, Josiah, and others also engaged in it. George and Jacob were partners for some time, but, believing that marked success was not possible for the two in the same place, Jacob went to the city of Baltimore, engaged in the wholesale trade. George continued merchandising in Waynesboro, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, built his residence and storeroom, and met with more than the usual success for thirty years, and then retired because of broken health. Afterward he bought Hopewell flouring-mills, about three miles east of town, where he in connection with others carried on a large business as merchant millers with varying fortunes until ill health and age compelled him to abandon it also.
"George Besore was a man of mark in his neighborhood; he was known and appreciated throughout his county, and throughout the length and breadth of his denomination, or church, wherever it existed in this country. In him as a citizen, his people could and did feel an honest pride. His political opinions and partialities were decided and warm, but always poised with moderation and judgment. For him office had no charms, and from him scheming received no countenance. The writer cannot now recollect of any office held by him, though there were times when he was urged to enter upon that course. His greatest strength and influence was seen and felt in general business and in his church. For almost a lifetime he was regarded as a leading and most trustworthy business man, and for forty years he was one of the pillars of the congregation of the Reformed Church in Waynesboro. If not the first he was one of the original movers for Sunday-schools. He held the position of superintendent of the first Sunday-school in Waynesboro, from its commencement in 1830 up to his death, save an interval of perhaps a few years toward the last. He was earnest, active and liberal in the movements, which turned the currant of opinion in his denomination toward a more liberal culture and education, and which resulted in the founding of Marshall College and the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church at Mercersburg, the mother institutions of that church in the United States. He served on the building committees, was treasurer of the seminary and one of its board, and also for many years a member of the trustees of the college at Mercersburg, and afterward at Lancaster. The Printing Establishment of the Church at Chambersburg leaned upon and found him a strong and unwavering friend in its darkest days. Much oftener than is usual was he sent as a delegate to the Classes, Synods and other ecclesiastical bodies of his church, and no laymen excelled him in force and influence in the debates and business of these assemblies. Although thus honored Mr. Besore scarcely received all that he deserved. The writer of these lines as boy and man, knew him long and well, as intimately as could be compatible with their disparity in age; and now, in looking back over the last forty years, he recalls with peculiar pleasure, in the life and character of his respected friend, such an utter absence of all weak and unseemly traits, and such a liberal presence of the strong, the urbane and the good, that the like of it is seldom seen in human life and experience. In making this man, nature took of goodly clay to fashion a goodly face and form, and vitalized and finished her work by breathing into it a spirit of nobility and truth, creating a gentleman. Grace lent her aid to nature's work, illumined the human tabernacle with light from Bethlehem's star, warmed it with love to God and fellowman, and left nature's gentleman a Christian." [HFC 1887, 935]