BIO: Isaac Newton SWOPE, Huntingdon County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: 
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, 
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. 
Runk & Co., 1897, page 415.
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  ISAAC NEWTON SWOPE, editor of the Mapleton Item, was born at Mapleton 
Depot, Huntingdon county, Pa., August 21, 1860. His ancestors were 
among the very early settlers in Huntingdon county. They were of German 
descent, and came to this section of the State from Virginia, Maryland 
and eastern Pennsylvania. His mother, who was a daughter of Levi and 
Mary Smith, of Trough Creek valley, died May 21, 1865. March 31, 1876, 
he entered Dickinson Seminary, at Williamsport, Pa., from which 
institution he was graduated June 19, 1879. He married Miss Marie D. 
White, of Porter township, October 27, 1881, the marriage ceremony 
being performed in the Mapleton Methodist Episcopal church by Rev. 
Charles Vinton Hartzell, who was a classmate of Mr. Swope at Dickinson 
Seminary. October 16, 1882, Mr. Swope became associated with Dr. A. R. 
McCarthy in the publishing of the Mt. Union Times. He continued as 
editor and publisher of this paper until September 1, 1886, when he 
retired to accept the principalship of the Mapleton Borough schools, a 
position which he held for five years. February 13, 1889, he purchased 
of H. C. Kinsloe the material of the defunct Newton Hamilton Standard, 
added considerable thereto, and April 10, 1889, commenced the 
publication of the Mapleton Item. In April, 1890, he succeeded his 
father as senior member of the firm of Swope & Gayton, shippers of 
limestone, building stone, rip-rap and ganister. The firm operates two 
quarries at Mapleton Depot, Pa.
  He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, Odd Fellows, Sons of 
America, Sons of Temperance and Grangers. At the session of the State 
Camp of the Patriotic Order Sons of America, held at Gettysburg, in 
August, 1891, he was elected State Master of Forms. He united with the 
Methodist Episcopal church in November, 1875, and is an active worker 
in the Sunday-school ranks.