Lebanon Valley College - Quittapahilla Yearbook (Annville, PA)

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George Daniel Gossard EORGE DANIEL GOSSARD was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, two and one-half miles south of Greencastle, on November 26, 1868. He was the second child of Hilary and Mary Gossard. Both of his parents and all of his seven brothers and sisters are still living. In his early youth he attended the public schools of his native county and later when his parents moved near Hagerstown, Maryland, those of Washington County, that state. It was during the public school period of his life that the foundations of his future intellectual power and strength of character were firmly laid. The teachers who were most responsible for the heights which he attained in later life are Ezra Shieldlcnecht, of Funkstown, Maryland; Martin Luther Keedym, now judge of the Wash- ington County Courts, and Joseph Shuman, of near Middleburg, Penn- sylvania. Even in his boyhood he was of a highly religious turn of mind, with the result that he was converted on his eighteenth birthday and three days later joined the United Brethren Church at Middleburg, of which Rev. S. H. Snell was then pastor. On January 21, 1888, he was granted Quarterly Conference License to preach ; and on March 2 of the same year he delivered his first sermon, the text of which was, The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. His youthful determination to obtain a higher education resulted in his entering West Virginia Normal and Classical Academy three days after he preached his first sermon. He graduated in his preparatory course in the spring of 1890 and entered Otterbein University in the following fall. While at college he became noted for his remarkable capacity to do much more work in a given time and do it well than the average student. This is demonstrated by the fact that he finished the regular three-year classical course in two ears, graduating with the degree of A. B. in 1892. In the following fall he entered Union Biblical Seminary, where his work was characterized by an even greater intensity of purpose and crown- ed with even greater success than his work in college. In fact he applied himself too closely to his work and consequently was forced to drop out of the seminary for one year to recuperate his health. He graduated in 1896 with the degree of B. D. During the period of his enforced absence from the seminary he was not idle by any means but served his first charge, Marion Circuit, which consisted of three churches with a total membership of eighty-five. He was considerably inconvenienced by the lack of a parsonage and the necessit l£35i;|bi V ' - ' - ' ' ' ' ' ' ' Z p: ff