Beswick, George M

Beswick, George M.

a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Kentucky, Oct. 11, 1811. He received a careful religious training, experienced religion in his fourteenth year, was licensed to preach at eighteen, and at twenty entered the Indiana Conference. From 1831 to 1838 he travelled circuits in different parts of the state, and afterwards filled many of the best appointments in the Conference. He died in 1854. Mr. Beswick was firm and decided, yet persuasive and respectful, a bold, original thinker, and a talented preacher. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1854, p. 447.