BIO:  Rev. George MCSHERRY, Menallen Township, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Pages 476-477

REV. GEORGE McSHERRY, pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, Bendersville, 
is a native of East Berlin, Hamilton Township, this county, born December 10, 
1854, son of Michael and Susannah (Weaner) McSherry, both natives of this 
county.  The father was engaged in operating a cigar manufactory at East Berlin 
nearly all his life.  He was a zealous member of the German Reformed Church, and 
assistant superintendent of the Sabbath-school many years.  He was a charter 
member and past officer of Oniska Tribe, No. 40, I. O. R. M., and an active 
member of Berlin Beneficial Society at the time of his death.  He died March 15, 
1886, aged fifty-eight years, nine months and eight days.  Politically he was a 
Republican, though never an office seeker.  His widow, who is a member of the 
Evangelical Lutheran Church, resides at East Berlin.  Our subject obtained his 
literary and theological education at the College of Gettysburg, being a student 
at Penn College in the fall of 1876, and graduated in June, 1880.  He 
immediately entered the theological seminary (Lutheran Evangelical General 
Synod), and graduated therefrom in June, 1883.  He qualified himself for 
teaching in a select school at East Berlin, and when seventeen years of age took 
charge of a school in Reading Township, near East Berlin; followed teaching for 
two more winters, when, with the intention of taking a collegiate course, he 
entered the preparatory collegiate school at Gettysburg, and graduated as above 
stated.  He was licensed to preach in 1882, and while a licentiate received a 
call to the Lutheran charge at Bendersville, which he accepted.  In 1883 he was 
ordained at the synod meeting in Carlisle, and remains the regular pastor.  The 
Bendersville charge consists of Wenksville, Bethlehem at Bendersville, 
Biglerville and Bender’s Church.  In December, 1882, our subject married Eudora 
Lucas, a daughter of Perry and Elizabeth Lucas, of Unionville, Centre Co., Penn.  
Mr. and Mrs. McSherry have one child, Stella Elizabeth.