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Originally Published in the Bradford Star, Thursday, September 21, 1905
History Of Herrick Township
Part IV
By Mrs. Eugene Camp Putnam.
There are few men in Bradford county with more interesting or
instructive careers than the late Hon. George Landon. At an early age
he began to bear his own responsibilities; he educated himself by
working on farms and teaching school. He graduated in college as
valedictorian of his class. He was a noted lecturer and orator at an
early age in Boston, but the strain of this work ruined his voice. He
came to Herrick with his first wife on a visit to her sister, Mrs. H.
W. Camp; he liked the country and bought a farm, which was his home
until his death. He became presiding elder In the Methodist church and
was twice State Senator, where he was a party leader. It was also
during this term of office that David Wilmot was elected United States
Senator to succeed Simon Cameron. Lincoln's Secretary of War Wilmot
had been defeated at the former election, and his election at this
time is generally admitted to have been due to the labors of Mr.
Landon. "A lion has a lion's enemies." Besides his career in the
pulpit and in public service, his generosity towards helping young men
to secure educational advantages are well known. He was of the first
to demand better schools and pay good salaries for teachers of merit.
Men who opposed Mr. Landon bitterly in politics have gone to his house
and although still differing on political questions have left
wondering at the marvelous warmth of welcome and personal magnatism,
which won for him his admirers. He was born in Wyoming county In 1816
and died in 1904. When he entered college he had just $10. He
graduated from Wesleyan College in Connecticut, with a class of
forty-three, winning the valedictory by reciting "The Landing of the
Pilgrims," by Mrs. Sigourney. At his death there were only two of his
class living. After the destruction by fire of the first building of
Wyoming Seminary in 1853, he took the financial agency of the school
and readily raised twenty-five thousand dollars, a large sum for that
time. Mr. Landon said in after years that was his first business
success.
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