Background
Shearer, George Lewis was born on October 16, 1835 in Dillsburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Doctor George Lewis and Eliza (Eichelberger) Shearer.
Shearer, George Lewis was born on October 16, 1835 in Dillsburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Doctor George Lewis and Eliza (Eichelberger) Shearer.
Bachelor of Arts, Lafayette College, 1857. Graduate Princeton Theological Seminary, 1864. (Doctor of Divinity, Lafayette, 1883).
Taught Monroeville, Alabama, 1857-1859, Academie, Pennsylvania, 1859-1861. During vacations missionary of the American Tract Society at Washington and in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1862-1865. Licensed to preach, 1864.
Ordained evangelist, Presbyterian Church, October 3, 1865.
District secretary American Tract Society at Philadelphia, 1864-1865, Richmond, Virginia, 1865-1868, San Francisco, 1869, assistant secretary at New York, 1868-1872, correspondent secretary, 1872-1902, general secretary, 1902-1907, secretary emeritus, since 1908, American Tract Society Reorganized the southern work of the American Tract Society, 1865-1868, at Richmond, Virginia, and organized its agency on Pacific Coast, 1869. Vice president Evangelical Alliance.
One of founders Presbyterian Union of New York, 1887. Vice president Citizens’ Eastside Improvement Association, New York, since 1902.
Chairman of the executive committee Society for Publishing Evangelical Literature for the Blind, for whom he has prepared devotional books, out of the American Standard Revised Bible.
Home: Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Married Mary Wing Ketchum, December 27, 1865.