SAMUEL C. SWABE. Among the prosperous agriculturists and well-known citizens of Fallowfield township, this gentleman occupies a prominent position. His father, Samuel Swabe, was a native of Westmoreland county, Penn., having been born in that locality in 1821. He passed his youth near the home place, and in 1841 was united in marriage with Elizabeth Colflesher, also a native of Westmoreland county, Penn., whose parents were of Holland birth. To this marriage were born three children, namely: Catherine, born in 1842; Lavina (deceased in 1889), born in 1845, and Samuel C. In 1847 the mother died. In 1850 Mr. Swabe was married to his second wife, Miss Maria Bortner, who bore him one daughter, Margaret S., born in 1855. This wife died in 1859, and in 1861 he made a third choice in the person of Mrs. Margaret Coyle, a member of a well-known family of Washington county. They had two daughters, namely: Dora B., born in 1862, and Ella, born in 1864. The wife and mother was called from earth in 1884. Mr. Swabe was a shoemaker and followed his trade until 1850, when he bought a farm in Fallowfield township, Washington county, to which the family removed in 1851. In 1855 he was elected justice of the peace, serving in that capacity for five years, and filling many other local offices. At his death, in 1888, he owned 265 acres of land, now occupied by his son. Samuel C. Swabe was born April 6, 1847, on the home farm in Westmoreland county, Penn. He was but four years of age when his parents brought him to the farm in Washington county, where his school days were passed. Since the death of his father he has managed the home place. On September 18, 1890, he selected a bride in the person of Ella S., daughter of the late George Allen, a prominent farmer of Washington county, Penn. They have one daughter, Garnet A., born August 23, 1891. Mr. and Mrs. Swabe reside on a farm lying two and a half miles from Charleroi, and five miles from Monongahela City. He raises a large quantity of excellent stock. In politics he is a Republican, and has served his township in various offices of trust.

Text taken from page 971 of: Beers, J. H. and Co., Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893). Transcribed March 1997 by Neil and Marilyn Morton of Oswego, IL as part of the Beers Project. Published March 1997 on the Washington County, PA USGenWeb pages at http://www.chartiers.com/.

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