BIO: Charles Holmes GOSHORN, Huntingdon County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Dave Wilson Copyright 2006. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************************** __________________________________________________________ McElroy, James Thomas Jr., McElroy's Family Memories, Huntingdon, PA: (Author), 1930, page 81. __________________________________________________________ REV. CHALMERS HOLMES GOSHORN, A.B., TH.B. Newton Hamilton, Pa. Presbyterian Minister: Has charges at Newton Hamilton, Mifflin County, Pa., and at Mapleton Depot, Huntingdon County, Pa. Rev. Chalmers Holmes Goshorn was born in Tell Township, Huntingdon County, Pa., August 3, 1893, and at the McNeal school in Tell Township laid the foundation of his future course in life, that of expounding the gospel. A son of Wilson Goshorn and Sarah Catharine (Parson) Goshorn. The father died in 1900, of German ancestry; the mother died in 1899, of Irish parentage. Has taught school for two years, one year in public schools of Tell township, and one year as Principal of Three Springs Borough public schools. He graduated at Southwestern Teachers College in 1913; College of Wooster, receiving the degree of A.B.; Princeton Theological Seminary, receiving the degree of Th. B. in 1923. A soldier in the World War; trained at Camp Lee; went overseas, serving with Battery A, 313 Field Artillery, as a Corporal; was at St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne, France. Belongs to the American Legion, Cowher- De-Mario Post, No. 322, Mapleton; served on school board at Newton Hamilton, Mifflin County, Pa.; is a Democrat in politics. At present fills two charges, Mapleton and Newton Hamilton. Was minister at Shade Gap before ordination. Has one brother, J. Calvin, Baltimore, Md., married to Elizabeth Swan. Rev. Goshorn married Marie Steele, daughter of William T. Steele, Shirley Township. Three children: Chalmers H., four years; Robert Dick, two years; one daughter, Anna Luetta, five years.