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Corson, George Norman

soldier, lawyer, lecturer, journalist, poet, was born March 11, 1833, in Montgomery county, Pa. He received his education at the Freemont seminary of Norristown, and the Ursinus college of Collegeville.

During the war he enlisted as a private soldier under the first call issued by Abraham Lincoln in April, 1861, till term of enlistment expired. In 1856 he was admitted to the bar, and has attained success in his profession at Norristown, Pa. He has been a member of the city council; register in bankruptcy for Lehigh and Montgomery counties; and a member of the constitutional convention of Pennsylvania of 1872 and 1873. He has traveled extensively in Europe, and is the author of many lectures and poems; and wrote the poem for the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of Montgomery county in 1884. For two years he edited the Norristown Independent.