Caldwell County MO Archives History .....MILTON A. SWITZER FAMILY OF KINGSTON 
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THE MILTON A. SWITZER FAMILY OF KINGSTON
	Narrator:  Otho Switzer of Calif.

     Otho Switzer is the son of Milton A. Switzer who was born in Hancock Co. 
Ohio 1840.  His father Samuel came to O. from Pa.  Milton Switzer came to 
Caldwell county 1866.  He at once went into the livery business and farming.  
Livery business was very good at Kingston because it was an inland town, and 
drummers had to hire rigs.  His livery barn was burnt down three times before 
he sold it.
     He at one time owned the farm on which the much frequented Switzer's 
grove was located.  Before his time, it was owned by the Royers and was the 
Royer grove, now it is owned by the Otto family and known as Otto grove, where 
the annual Kingston fox hunt is staged.  Mr. Switzer, while he had it, used to 
rent it to picnics and G.A.R. reunions for the exclusive hack and feed lot 
privileges, which was the way he made his money out of it.  This was in the 
80s and early 90s.
     This old Switzer farm, east of Kingston, was part of the old Jesse Mann 
farm (see paper on the Mann family).  On the other side of the grove, across 
the road, is the oldest well in Caldwell county dug for Jesse Mann.  On the 
farm, when Otho was a boy, was still to be seen a small burial plot consisting 
of three graves; no one was sure whose graves they might be.  There is a 
strong probability they were the graves of the earliest dead in the county, 
namely the two children of Abraham Couts and one child of Thos. Vanderpool.
     Milton Switzer had three children - Amos, Effie, and Otho.  The family 
now have all left Kingston, or have died.
     Interview  1935.


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