Biography of William Swartz, page 942.  History of De Kalb County, Indiana. 
Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

William Swartz, one of the pioneers of De Kalb County, was born in Sugar 
Creek Township, Wayne Co., Ohio, March 11, 1830, a son of David and 
Catherine (Ishler) Swartz.  His parents emigrated from Lebanon County, Pa., 
in an early day, and crossing the Allegheny mountains with teams located in 
Wayne County, Ohio, where they lived till 1848, when they moved to De Kalb 
County, Ind., and located on sections 9 and 10, Union Township, and made a 
fine farm out of a tract of heavily timbered land, where they lived the rest 
of their lives.  The mother died in 1865 and  the father in 1866. They were 
members of the United Brethren church, and were loved and esteemed by all 
who knew them.  William Swartz was eighteen years of age when his parents 
moved to De Kalb County, and from that time till his marriage assisted his 
father in clearing his frontier farm.  Although he commenced life with 
limited means, he has been successful, and now has eighty acres of fine 
land, valued at $75 and acre.  Mr. Swartz was married in Stark County, 
Ohio, in 1853, to Elizabeth, daughter of William and Rebecca Welch.  Her 
father was drowned in Lake Erie, when she was two years old.  Mr. and Mrs. 
Swartz have had ten children, seven of whom are living---Adeline, wife of 
Josiah Kosht; Angelia, Isora, Tarring, Lulu Bell, Melvin and Jennie.  In 
politics Mr. Swartz affiliates with the Democratic party.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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