Bio of SWAIN, Charles L. (b.1870), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical

Vol II, pg 797-798
CHARLES L. SWAIN
Commercial activity in Minneapolis receives stimulus from the efforts of Charles
L. Swain, who has been a resident of this city for more than four decades and is
now at the head of a large fuel and transfer business, which has been developed
through his enterprise and ability. He is one of Minnesota's native sons, his
birth having occurred at Northfield, this state, on the 20th of November, 1870,
and his parents were Howard L. and Electra (Greene) Swain, the former a native
of Massachusetts and the latter of Minnesota. The Swain family came to this
state in pioneer times and the father first engaged in the windmill business. In
1880 he became a resident of Minneapolis and eight years later opened a hardware
establishment at No. 413 Fourteenth avenue, Southeast, which he conducted
successfully until November, 1897. He then disposed of his business and went to
Florida, where he lived retired until his death, which occurred in 1906. Mrs.
Swain is now living at Anoka, Minnesota.
Charles L. Swain attended the public schools of Northfield, Minnesota, and for
two years was a pupil in the schools of Oberlin, Ohio, He was but ten years of
age when his parents removed to Minneapolis and his education was mainly
acquired in this city. In 1889 he entered his father's hardware store and was
connected with the business until it was sold. In 1906 he entered business on
his own account, organizing the Swain Transfer & Fuel Company, and in 1910 he
incorporated his interests, which have since been operated under the name of the
Swain-Farmer Company. Mr. Farmer is not actively connected with the business,
which is controlled by Mr. Swain, as its president, and the success of the
undertaking is entirely attributable to his carefully formulated plans and well
directed efforts.
On the 22d of June, 1896, Mr. Swain was married to Miss Mabel Daugherty and they
became the parents of two children: Earle E. and Mabel M. The wife and mother
passed away in 1901 and three years later Mr. Swain wedded Julia Palmer of
Worcester, Massachusetts, by whom he has two sons, Howard Palmer and Ray
Leonard. Earle E. Swain is a veteran of the World war. He was commissioned a
lieutenant and became a member of Battery F of the One Hundred and Fifty-first
Regiment but left that command in August, 1918, and joined the Three Hundred and
Nineteenth Field Artillery, which was attached to the Eighty-second Division. He
participated in many of the heaviest engagements of the war, including those of
the Aisne-Marne, Argonne-Meuse and Champagne-Marne, and was wounded in the last
named battle. He was gassed at Lorraine, being afterward confined in a hospital
for a short time, and was mustered out of the service at Camp Meade.
Mr. Swain is a member of the St. Anthony Commercial Club, of which he is now.
serving as president, and he is also connected with the Midland Hills Country
Club and the Twin City Rod & Gun Club. Resourcefulness and enterprise have
brought him steadily to the front in business circles of Minneapolis and his is
a well ordered, upright life that commands for him the respect and confidence of
all with whom he has come into contact.