Suydam, John Howard – Sweat, Lorenzo D. M
Suydam, John Howard
clergyman, author, was born Oct. 1, 1832, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He is a Dutch reformed clergyman of Jersey City from 1869, and the author of The Cruger Family; Cruel Jim; and The Wreckmaster.
Swaim, David Gaskill
soldier, lawyer, was born Dec. 22, 1834, in Salem, Ohio. He served with distinction throughout the civil war in the United States army, and attained the rank of colonel.
He became judge advocate general of the army in 1881, with the rank of brigadiergeneral.
Swain, Adeline Morrison
educator, suffragist, was born May 25, 1820, in Bath, N. H. She received her education in the public schools, Newbury seminary, Vermont, and the Troy Conference academy of West Poultney. For many years she was preceptress of the Troy Conference seminary, and teacher of French, Spanish and Italian.
She subsequently held the same poa sition in Nunda Literary institute; and taught drawing and painting in both institutions. In 1883 she was a candidate for state superintendent of public instruction of Iowa; and in 1884 was state delegate at large to the presidential convention held at Indianapolis. She has contributed extensively to current literature on different topics and suffrage work.
Swain, David Lowry
lawyer, jurist, college president, governor, author, was born Jan. 4, 1801, near Asheville, N.
C. In 1824 he was elected to represent Buncombe county, N. C., in the house of commons of the state. In 1831 he was appointed judge of the supreme court; from 1832 to 1835 was governor of the state.
From that time until his death he was president of the university of North Carolina. He published British Invasion of North Carolina; and other works. He died Sept. 3, 1868, in Chapel Hill, N. C.
Swain, James Barrett
journalist, author, was born July 30, 1820, in New York city. He was a journalist of New York city, postoffice inspector in 1881-85, and the author of Life and Speeches of Henry Clay; Historical Notes to Speeches of Henry Clay; and A Military History of New York State. He died in 1895.
Swain, John R
lawyer, writer, was born Aug. 9, 1863, in Detroit, Mich. In 1868 he moved west with his parents, first to Mapleton, Iowa, and then to Southland, where he received his early education; subsequently graduating from the law department of the state university of Iowa. He has attained success in the profession of law at Greeley, Neb.; was city attorney in 1892-93, and county attorney in 1893-94. He has been a member of the city council for several years, and chairman of the school board. He has contributed extensively to the periodical press, and in 1895 was editor of the Greeley Herald.
Swain, Joseph
educator, college president, was born June 16, 1857, in Pendleton, Ind. In 1893 he was elected president of the university of Indiana, which position he still holds.
Swan, John
congressman. He was a delegate from North Carolina to the continental congress from 1787 to 1788.
Swan, Josiah Rockwell
lawyer, jurist, author, was born Dec. 28, 1802, in Westernville, N. Y. He was a prominent jurist of Columbus, Ohio, and the author of Treatise on Justices of the Peace and Constables in Ohio; Manual for Executors and Administrators; Pleading and Practice; and Commentaries on Pleadings under the Ohio Code. He died Dec. 18, 1884, in Columbus, Ohio.
Swan, Samuel
congressman, was born in 1771 in Somerset county, N. J.
He was a representative in congress from New Jersey from 1821 to 1831. He died Aug. 24, 1844, in Brunswick, N. J.
Swan, Timothy
musician, composer, was born July 23, 1758, in Worcester, Mass. He settled at Northfield, Mass., where he resided until his death. Some of his psalm-tunes, among them China, Pownal, and Poland, became very popular, and are still to be found in collections of church music. He died July 23, 1842, in Northfield, Mass.
Swan, William B
physician, legislator, was born Feb. 16, 1864, in Paterson, N. J. In 1892 he was elected a member of the Kansas house of representatives from the Topeka City district.
Swan, William Draper
educator, author, was born Nov. 17, 1809, in Dorchester, Mass. He was an educator and bookseller of Boston. He published a popular series of school readers; and a series of widely used arithmetics. He died Nov. 2, 1864, in Rochester, N. Y.
Swanger, Francis Asbury
educator, college president, was born May 3, 1859, in Milroy, Pa. He attended the State Normal school of Kirksville, Mo., and the State university of Columbia; and has had the degrees of M. S. D. and A. M. conferred upon him. For many years he taught in the district schools of Sullivan county, Mo., and has been principal of schools in Greencastle, Carrollton, Lancaster and Kirksville. He taught physics and language in the State Normal school of Kirksville, Mo., during 1889-91; then taught mathematics until 1894; since which time he has been president of that institution of learning.
Swanger, John E
lawyer, educator, legislator, was born June 22, 1864, in Milan, Mo. For a number of years he taught school, was a superintendent of public schools for three years, and is now engaged in the practice of law at Milan, Mo. In 1892 he was elected to the Missouri state legislature and received the re-election in 1894.
Swank, James Moore
author, was born July 12, 1832, in Loyalhanna, Pa.
He is the general manager of the American Iron and Steel association since 1885, and the author of History of the Department of Agriculture; Iron Making and Coal Mining in Pennsylvania; and Iron Manufacture in All Ages.
Swann, Thomas
lawyer, banker, governor, United States senator, was born in 1805 in Alexandria, Va. He was appointed secretary of the Neapolitan commission, and in 1834 settled in Baltimore, Md. Two years afterward he was chosen a director of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad company, and in 1847 was chosen president of the same, which office he resigned in 1853. He was also president of the Northwestern Virginia Railroad company, disbursing in behalf of the two roads about thirteen million dollars. In 1856 he was elected mayor of Baltimore; was re-elected in 1858. He was the originator of the Druid Hill park in that city. He emancipated his slaves before the rebellion, and continued a union man during the war. In 1863 he was elected president of the First National bank of Baltimore. In 1864 he was elected governor of Maryland. In 1866 he was elected a senator in congress, but declined to leave the executive chair. In 1868 he was elected a representative from Maryland to the forty-first congress, and was re-elected to the forty-second, forty-third, forty-fourth and forty-fifth congresses as a democrat. He died July 24, 1883, in Leesburg, Va.
Swanson, Claude A
lawyer, congressman, was born March 31, 1862, in Swansonville, Va. He was a delegate to the national democratic convention of 1896. He was elected from Virginia to the fifty-third, fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a democrat.
Swanwick, John
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1795 to 1798, but resigned before the expiration of his second term.
Swart, Peter
state senator, congressman. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1807 to 1809; and was a state senator from 1817 to 1820.
Swarthout, Samuel
naval officer, was born May 10, 1804, in New York city. In 1820 he entered the navy as a midshipman; was promoted to commander in 1855; and took an active part in the civil war. He died Feb. 5, 1867, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Swartz, Joel
clergyman, author, was born Aug. 18, 1827, in Shenandoah, Va. He is a lutheran clergyman, pastor at Gettysburg from 1881, and the author of Dreamings of the Waking, with Other Poems; and Lyra Lutherana.
Swayne, Charles
lawyer, jurist, was born Aug. 10, 1842, in New Castle county, Del. He has served as United States district judge of the northern district of Florida, with headquarters at St. Augustine.
Swayne, Noah Haynes
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born Dec. 7, 1804, in Culpeper county, Va. In 1829 he was elected to the legislature of Ohio, and in 1830 was appointed United States district attorney for Ohio, holding that position nine years, and residing in Columbus. In 1834 he was chosen judge of the court of common pleas, but declined the office, and in 1836 was again elected to the state legislature. In 1861 he was appointed a justice of the supreme court of the United States. He died June 8, 1884, in New York city.
Swayne, Wager
soldier, lawyer, was born Nov. 10, 1834, in Columbus, Ohio.
In 1865 he was brevetted a brigadier-general. He was a successful lawyer of New York city, and subsequently of Chicago.
Swearingen, Henry
congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from Ohio from 1839 to 1841.
Swearingen, Thomas V
congressman, was born in Jefferson county, Virginia. He was elected a representative in congress from Virginia from 1819 to 1822, when he died in Virginia.
Sweat, Lorenzo D. M
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born May 26, 1818, in Parsonville, Maine. In 1856 and 1860 he was a city solicitor in Portland, Maine; and in 1862 was a member of the state senate. He was elected a representative from Maine to the thirty-eighth congress.- HERRINGSHAW'S ENCYCLOPEDIA (F AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY.