Montgomery County PA Archives Biographies.....Corson, George September 14, 1849 - 
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Source: Biographical Annals of Montgomery County Pennsylvania, T. S. Benham & Company and the Lewis Publishing Company, 1904
Author: Ellwood Roberts, Editor

GEORGE CORSON, an active and influential factor in the 
business circles of Whitemarsh township, Montgomery county, 
Pennsylvania, was born at the old Corson homestead located 
near Plymouth Meeting, September 14, 1849, a son of Elias 
Hicks and Emily R. (Harris) Corson.

The educational advantages enjoyed by George Corson were 
obtained in the schools of the neighborhood, which he 
attended until he was fourteen years of age; at the famous 
Central High School, located at Fifteenth and Race streets, 
Philadelphia; and at Treemount Seminary, Norristown, where 
he completed his studies. 

During the years 1874-75 he was in the employ of Alan Wood & 
Company, of Conshohocken, and in the year 1876 he decided to 
test the business opportunities of the western portion of 
the United States. Accordingly he went to Minnesota, 
locating at Willmar, where he entered into partnership with 
his brother, Henry H. Corson, in the grain and banking 
business. This connection was dissolved the following year 
owing to the death of his father, when George Corson felt it 
incumbent upon himself to return home. From that year until 
the present time, a period of twenty-seven years, he has 
been connected with his brother, Walter H. Corson, at Corson 
Station, in various enterprises, namely: farming, dealing in 
coal, and in the burning of lime; and by industry, and 
perseverance they have been enabled to earn a comfortable 
livelihood, and also to accumulate a competence for their 
declining years. Mr. Corson is a man of honor and integrity, 
active and energetic in the promotion of plans which tend 
toward the development of the community in which he resides, 
and the esteem in which he is held by his fellow townsmen is 
evidenced by the fact that he was chosen to serve in various 
capacities of trust and responsibility.For twelve 
consecutive years he served as school director of Plymouth 
township; is a director of the Montgomery Mutual Fire 
Insurance Company, at Norristown; and vice-president of the 
Tradesmen's National Bank at Conshohocken.

On March 16, 1881, Mr. Corson married Elizabeth D. 
Cadwallader, born June 16, 1856, died July 21, 1903, a 
daughter of Charles M. and Anna (Conrad) Cadwallader, of 
Bucks county, Pennsylvania. Three children were born of this 
marriage: Charles Cadwallader, born January 12, 1882; he is 
a third year student in the Medical Department of the 
University of Pennsylvania. Percy Harris, born June 15, 
1884, died January 23, 1904. George Cadwallader, born 
September 9, 1889.

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