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Swan, Timothy – Swayne, Wager

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, 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.

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, 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.