Beshoar, Michael
physician, legislator, journalist, was born Feb. 25, 1833, near Mifflintown, Pa. He attended the Tuscarora academy, Philadelphia and Jefferson medical colleges, medical departments of the universities of Pennsylvania and Michigan, graduating from the latter institution in 1853. He was a representative in the legislatures of Arkansas, and the territory (and later the state) of Colorado. He was surgeon in the Arkansas state militia, surgeon of the provisional (and later the regular army) of the confederacy; and filled numerous other public offices as a physician. He was county judge for seven years; county superintendent of schools for two terms; founder and editor of the Pueblo Chieftain in 1868; founder and present editor and owner of the Daily Advertiser of Trinidad, Colo. He has been a member of the Pan-American medical congress.