Bio of Kramer SWARTHOUT (b.1823 d.1909), Wright Co., MN

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This Bio is from the HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY, Volumes I and II,
Published in 1915 by Franklin Curtiss - Wedge.
Surname Index for The HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY can be found at:
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be some typos.


454            HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY 

Kramer Swarthout, one of the pioneers, was born in Saratoga county, 
New York, in 1823, and there married Charlotte Burch. They came to 
Minnesota in 1856, and located on the west side of the Mississippi 
river, ten miles below St. Paul. In 1857 they came to Wright county, 
driving a yoke of cows. They settled in Woodland township, to which
they afterward added until they owned 1.60 acres. When they arrived 
in the county they were $2.50 in debt. For the first six months they 
lived in a shanty roofed with hay. Mr. Swarthout several times walked 
to St. Anthony, bringing from there a fifty-pound sack of flour on 
his back. Two days before the Indian outbreak he took his family to 
Rockford and enlisted in Company E, Eighth Minnesota Volunteer 
Infantry, in which he served, first against the Indians in the 
Northwest and then against the Confederates in the South. His only 
injury was a slight scratch from a bullet. After the war he returned 
home and resumed farm work. He was prominent in the Methodist 
Episcopal church and was the first class leader of that denomination 
in this vicinity. He was also a prominent member of the G. A. R. 
Mr. Swarthout died August 30, 1909. His wife died in May, 1903. 
In the Swarthout family there were six children: Marie, Sibyl, Julia, 
Mary H., Charlotte Ophelia and John (deceased).