Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Remembrance M. Swan

Company C.

Born in Marshall county, West Virginia, July 27th, 1835. Emigrated with his parents, Henry and Esther Swan, to Henry county, Iowa, on the 8th day of April. A. D. 1838. Ex-member of Company C. First Iowa Volunteer Cavalry. Also member of the Masonic order, Danville Lodge, No. 48, of Danville. Iowa. Also of the Grand Army of the Republic, Burlington, where he resides. His father. Henry V. Swan, was a Lieutenant in Company G, Thirty-seventh Iowa Volunteer Infantry. Occupation through life, farmer and stock dealer; formerly bred the Jersey cattle. Also taught a great many terms of school, in his younger days, in DesMoines and Henry counties. Iowa.

SOURCE: Charles H. Lothrop, A History Of The First Regiment Iowa Cavalry Veteran Volunteers, p. 333

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