BIO: Samuel McCurdy SWOPE, Gettysburg, Adams County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Kathy Francis Copyright 2005. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/adams/ _______________________________________________ History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886 _______________________________________________ Part III, History of Adams County, Page 374 SAMUEL MCCURDY SWOPE, attorney at law, Gettysburg, Penn., was born in that place October 4, 1851, being a son of John A. and Nancy (McCurdy) Swope, native of Adams County. His father was of German and his mother of Scotch-Irish descent. Adam Swope, grandfather of Samuel McCurdy Swope, was among the early settlers of Adams County and by occupation a tanner. Mr. Swope’s father, John A. Swope, resided in the borough of Gettysburg during his lifetime, which closed in 1880, October 25, at the age of sixty-five years and twenty-three days. He was bitterly opposed to slavery, and was one of the original abolitionists in that part of the country. He was a man of naturally strong and bright mind and was a great general reader. By occupation he was a saddle-tree maker. Our subject was the third of four children and grew up to manhood in his native village. He graduated from Pennsylvania College in the class on 1872. In 1874 he entered the office of Hon. David Wills, of Gettysburg, with whom he read law, and was admitted to the bar at Gettysburg in 1876, and two years later to practice before the Supreme Court of the State. He was twice elected district attorney for the county of Adams (the second time without opposition) though a candidate of the minority party, and as such served six years, from January, 1880, to January, 1886. In politics he is a Republican. In 1876 Mr. Swope was married to Anna Kate Stair, a daughter of William Stair, late of York, Penn., and to the marriage have been born three children: Marrion, James Donald and Mary Stair, the latter two of whom are now living. Mrs. Swope is a member of the Presbyterian Church.