Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Swope, Tobias
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Tinicum Township


   TOBIAS SWOPE farmer, P.O. Point Pleasant, is a son of 
George Swope, who was born in this township about 1796, and 
died in 1862. He was a man of great industry, and of 
excellent character, and was a member of the Tinicum 
Lutheran church. His wife was Mary Magdalena Maust. She was 
a member of the same church as her husband, and was a good 
wife and mother. She died in 1876, aged 81. Their children 
were Tobias, Mary, Susanna, Elizabeth, Catherine, Peter and 
George M., who was born in January, 1831, and in 1857 
married Sarah Ann, daughter of Jacob Kilmer, of this 
township. They have had ten children:  Clayton, Mary, Jacob, 
Samuel, Alfred, Sarah, Emma, Rosa, Minna, and Tobias 
(deceased). George M. Swope has been for twelve years an 
elder and member of the Tinicum Lutheran church. Tobias 
Swope, oldest son of George and Mary Magdalena Swope, was 
born July 7, 1819. He has always been a farmer, and three 
years before his father's death rented the home farm, which 
he subsequently bought from the estate. He was one of the 
projectors and builders of the Tinicum Co-operative 
Diarymen's association creamery, and is the treasurer and 
superintendent, having sole charge of the creamery. He is a 
member of the Tinicum Lutheran church, and is a man whose 
word can always be relied on. He is not married, and makes 
his home with his brother, George M.