Carroll-Tippecanoe County IN Archives Biographies.....Swartz, Isaac 1850 - 
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

ISAAC SWARTZ.

   Isaac Swartz, a well-known farmer of Clay township, Carroll county, Indiana,
who owns three hundred and twenty acres of land equal in fertility and
productivity to any other similar tract to be found in the county, and who is
now traveling for the Western Implement Company of Indianapolis, is a native of
Montgomery county, Pennsylvania. Not only does Mr. Swartz own a magnificent
farm, which is well known in this section as the "Pyrmont Stock Farm," but he
also owns property in Delphi and at Pittsburg. He also has other important
interests. As a farmer and stockman he has made a large success with purebred
Shorthorn and Holstein cattle. All of the buildings now standing on "Pyrmont
Stock Farm" he himself has erected: At different times he has been interested in
various corporations of this state and at one time was a mill owner in Carroll
county. He is a man with large business capacity and great breadth of vision.

   Isaac Swartz was born on July 17, 1850, in Montgomery county, Pennsylvania,
and is the son of John and Suzanna (Hendricks) Swartz, the former of whom was a
landowner and factory operator in the Keystone state. John Swartz manufactured
washing machines and besides this owned a farm of forty acres. All of his
brothers and sisters, Sarah, George, Maria and Abraham, are now deceased. All of
his people resided in Pennsylvania. John Swartz, who was a Republican in
politics and a member of the Church of the Brethren, died on August 26, 1876, in
Carroll county, Indiana. Upon coming west he had located at Camden and, after
spending three months in the far West, had purchased two mills and a farm in
Tippecanoe county. He operated the mills for thirty years, employing assistants
to operate the farm. Late in life he sold both mills and the farm and moved to
Carroll county, where he owned two hundred acres of land and a mill. Here he
employed considerable assistance to operate the mill and the farm. His wife's
folks were all natives of Pennsylvania. Suzanna (Hendricks) Swartz was one of a
large family. Her brothers and sisters were as follow: Henry, Ben and Sarah.

   The late John Swartz was twice married, first to Suzanna Hendricks and later
to Esther Fouts. By his first marriage he had two children, namely: Salonia, the
wife of Aaron Root, of Tippecanoe township, and Isaac, the subject of this
sketch. By the second marriage there were also two children, Anna and John. Anna
is a resident of Pyrmont and John has a large, farm.

   Isaac Swartz began to make his own way in the world when he was twenty-one
years old. For a number of years he bought and sold lumber and then engaged in
farming in Carroll county, at the same time buying forty acres of land in
Tippecanoe township. Upon selling the forty acres in Tippecanoe county he bought
sixty-eight acres of the present farm in Carroll county and then one hundred and
thirty-two acres. He has cleared the land and erected many substantial
buildings, besides thoroughly draining the soil.

   On August 9, 1874, Isaac Swartz was married to Catherine Stude-baker, of
Pyrmont, whose father, Samuel Studebaker, was born on September 25, 1810, and
whose mother, Catherine (Wetzger) Studebaker, was born on December 8, 1812. They
were natives of Pennsylvania and Ohio; respectively. They were married in
Montgomery county, Ohio, on May 2, 1835. They had a large family of children, as
follow: Jacob is deceased; Mary is a resident of Carroll county; Andrew Wagoner
is married; Hannah is deceased; David lives at the home of his brother-in-law,
Isaac Swartz; Efiza C. is deceased; John died in infancy; Catherine is Mr.
Swartz's wife; Samuel lives at Pyrmont.

   To Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Swartz have been born five children. Edward died in
1913, at the age of thirty-eight years. He was married to Cecil Jacot, who is
also deceased. They had three children, two of whom are with Mr. and Mrs.
Swartz.   Elmer, a fruit grower and stockman, lives at Fremont, Michigan. He
married Ada Gripe, and they have three children. Mary, who lives at Nampa,
Idaho, married Jesse Blickenstaff. They have five children. Jesse lives on his
father's farm. Floyd also lives on the farm with his father and mother.

   Not only has Isaac Swartz been prominent as a farmer but has been also
prominent in politics. He was nominated and elected to the office of township
assessor in Clay township, a position which he filled capably and satisfactorily
for a period of eight years.


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HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY INDIANA

ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS
BY
JOHN C ODELL
With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and
Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families

ILLUSTRATED
1916
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana


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