Bartholomew-Jackson County IN Archives Biographies.....Swengel, Wilson S. 1845 - 
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Author: B. F. Bowen (1904)

WILSON S. SWENGEL.

   Wilson Shannon Swengel was born near Circleville, Ohio, December 13, 1845,
the son of Charles Swengel. He spent his boyhood upon the farm and attended the
common schools until his fourteenth year, when he entered Hartsville College,
and after several years at that institution entered Asbury University, at
Greencastle, Indiana, where he completed the classical course and was graduated
in the class of 1868. In 1869 he began reading law in the office of Judge
Francis T. Hord in Columbus, but in the fall of that year was elected principal
of the Clear Spring high school, which he conducted for nine months, and then
resumed his law studies in the office of Hon. Jason B. Brown, at Brownstown,
Indiana, where he was admitted to the bar and where he began his practice. In
1870 he was elected district attorney of the seventh judicial district, composed
of the counties of Jackson, Jennings, Lawrence and Bartholomew. In 1872 he was
elected county school examiner of Jackson county, which position he held until
March 1, 1873, when he was elected county school superintendent of the same
county, in which office1 he served for two years. He then resumed the practice
of law, and on June 29, 1875, located in Columbus. In 1876 he was elected
prosecuting attorney of the ninth judicial district, composed of Bartholomew and
Brown counties. In May, 1883, he was elected city attorney of Columbus and was
re-elected to that office in 1887. He was again elected city attorney in May,
1897, and served until May, 1901. He has since been practicing law by himself.

   Mr. Swengel was married, December 27, 1870, to Sallie E. Hutchins, of
Greencastle, Indiana. To this union has been born one daughter, Mary Bernice,
her birth occurring February 11, 1879.


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BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY
INDIANA

INCLUDING BIOGRAPHIES OF THE GOVERNORS AND OTHER REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS OF INDIANA

ILLUSTRATED

1904

B. F. Bowen PUBLISHER


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