Greene County IN Archives Biographies.....Switz, John (Sr.) 1816 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

   JOHN SWITZ, SR., one of the prominent German residents of Switz City, was
barn at Hoch Emerich, Rhine. Kingdom of Prussia, Germany, in March, 1816, and is
a son of John and Sibilla (Kueppers) Switz. He was liberally educated in the
schools of his native country, and while a young man worked as a farm laborer,
and at the weaver's trade. In February, 1846, he was married to Charlotte
Bovenschen, who was born at Bergheim-on-the-Rhine, in August, 1819, and together
they embarked at Antwerp, Belgium, in 1849, for the purpose of finding homes in
the United States. They disembarked at New Orleans, La., from thence coming to
Greene County, Ind., Mr. Switz purchasing a large tract of land in Grant and
Fairplay Townships, which had been put upon the market as "canal land." This
property is situated where he now resides on the present site of Switz City,
which was surveyed and platted in 1870, and named in his honor. Mr. Switz is the
owner of over 200 acres of good land, and in connection with farming keeps a
first-class hotel. In politics he is Democratic, and is the father of three sons
and one daughter, named John, Harmon, Henry and Mary.

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Grant Township Biographies

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HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES,
STATE OF INDIANA,
FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1884.

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