Howard-Union-Cass County IN Archives Biographies.....Swafford, Emmet E. 1861 - 
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Author: Jackson Morrow

EMMET E. SWAFFORD.

   At this point we enter brief record concerning another of the representative
farmers of Clay township, Howard county, and aside from the positions which the
subject occupies as a leading and highly esteemed citizen of the county, there
is added interest attached to the resume of his career from the fact that he
came here early in life and has seen the wonderful advancement of this section,
having located here as one of the advanced guard of progress and material
advancement and while he has benefited himself in a very material way in this
locality, he has been of much value to the surrounding country-owing to his
public spirit and his loyality [sic] to the support of any movements which have
as their ultimate aim the bettering of the community in which he maintained his
home.

   Emmet E. Swafford was born in Union county, Indiana, September 21, 1861, the
son of Archibald A. and Sarah (Burroughs) Swafford, both natives of Union
county, this state, where they lived their useful and prosperous lives and where
they both passed to their rest, after becoming the parents of eleven children,
of whom our subject was the youngest.

   Mr. Swafford was reared in Union county on his father's farm where he was
taught the valuable lessons of agriculture, and also received the moral training
at the hands of his worthy parents, which have done so much in successfully
shaping his later life and rendering him a valuable citizen to the community
where he makes his home. He received a good education in the common schools and
at the Liberty high school, having remained at his parental fireside until he
was twenty-six years old, at which time he came to Cass county, Indiana, where
he remained one year, then settled in Clay township, Howard county, in the
spring of 1889, where he has since resided, having always followed farming and
agricultural pursuits which, needless to say, he has made a pronounced success,
being regarded as one of the best farmers in his community and having one of the
best improved farms in the township. It consists of one hundred and twenty
acres, all very productive and of an excellent quality of soil.

   Mr. Swafford was first married in Union county, Indiana, February 14, 1886,
to Margaret Bicknell, who was called to her reward in Clay township, Howard
county, February 28, 1894, and the subject was again married in Cass county,
this state, January 1, 1896, to Flora A. Stanley. Two children were born to this
union, both dying in infancy.

   The subject has long taken an active part in political affairs, being a
stanch Republican, and his influence is always felt at local elections,
assisting as best he can to place good men in township and county offices.

   Fraternally Mr. Swafford is a member of the Knights of Pythias, taking much
interest in this lodge and endeavoring to live up to its worthy precepts in his
daily life which has always been above reproach, standing as he does for honesty
in business, politics and private life, which has gained for him the universal
respect and esteem of a host of friends and acquaintances.


Additional Comments:
From:

HISTORY OF HOWARD COUNTY INDIANA
BY
JACKSON MORROW, B. A.
ILLUSTRATED
VOL. II
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA

(circa 1909)

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