Joe Davis County IL

Biographical Sketch of George W. Swagart

GEORGE W. SWAGART. – Mr. Swagart, identified since 1853 with the interests of our coast, and now one of the “cattle kings” of Eastern Oregon, was born May 1, 1848, near Galena, in Joe Davis county, Illinois. In 1853 he came with his parents to Oregon, locating in Lane county, where he received a common-school education, and became inured to the hardships of an early pioneer life, in the saddle, and to the arduous labors of farming, until, in 1865, he branched out for himself in the stock business, driving a band of sheep across the Cascade Mountains to the … Read more

James Marcus Todd of New York NY

James Marcus Todd9, (James D.8, Silas7, Elam6, Edmund5, Christopher4, Samuel3, Samuel2, Christopher1) born Oct. 12, 1858, in Mt. Hope, Joe Davis County, Ill., married in June, 1887, Nora Abbott, who graduated from Mount Holyoke College, in South Hadley, Mass. He was a student at Beloit and later graduated from the Northwestern University Medical School in 1887. In 1913 he was practicing his profession in New York City, with his office in the Terminal Building. Child: 2651. Russell Webster, b. Jan., 1888, in Madison, Minn.; he graduated from Princeton University and later the Columbia Law School.