Swinton, William
journalist, educator, author, was born April 23, 1833, in Scotland. He was a journalist and educator, long prominent in New York city, and was the author of Rambles Among Words; Twelve Decisive Battles of the War; Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac; The Times's Review of McClellan; History of the New York Seventh Regiment; Word Analysis; Bible Word Book; and Studies in English Literaturè.
He died Oct. 24, 1892, in New York.
SWISHER, MRS. BELLA (FRENCH), was born in 1837 in Georgia. She was a writer who resided in Texas from 1877, and the author of Struggling up to the Light, a novel; Rocks and Shoals; Florecita, a romance; History of Brown County, Wisconsin; Cassie; Homeless Though at Home; and The Story of a Woman's Love. She died in 1894. SWISSHELM, MRS. JANE GRAY (CANNON), journalist, author, was born Sept. 6, 1815, in Pittsburg, Pa. She was a journalist of Pittsburg, and subsequently of St. Cloud, Minn., prominent as an abolitionist. She was the author of Letters to Country Girls; and Half a Century, an autobiography. She died July 22, 1884, in Swissvale, Pa.
SWITZER, GEORGE WASHINGTON, clergyman, was born Nov. 2, 1854, in Tippecanoe county, Ind. He graduated from the De Pauw university of Greencastle, Ind.; and has gained distinction as one of the leading clergyman of the methodist episcopal church. In 1881 he was a delegate to the international Young Men's Christian association held in London, England; and in 1897 was vice-president of the Young Men's Christian association of Indiana. He is a popular clergyman of Indiana, and has filled pastorates in Crawfordsville, Brazil and West Lafayette, in that state. a SWITZER, LUCY ROBINS MESSER, temperance worker, was born March 28, 1844, in Lowell, Mass. She has become prominent as worker in the Woman's Foreign Missionary society and the Woman's Christian Temperance union, and has written extensively on those subjects. She has traveled thousands of miles in the work, and has attended national conventions in Detroit, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Nashville, New York, Chicago, Boston, and Washington, D. C. For ten years she has been territorial and state president of the Woman's Christian Temperance union at Cheney, Wash.