BIO:  J. M. Sweigart, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Newberry Township, Pg 157

J. M. SWEIGART was born in Lancaster County, Penn., in 1829, and is the second 
son in a family of four children born to Adam and Ann (Hartley) Sweigart, natives 
of Lancaster County, Penn., and of French and German descent, respectively, both 
deceased.  The father was a school teacher and wagon-maker, and died in his 
eighty-fifth year.  Subject’s grandfathers, Sweigart and Hartley, were in the 
Revolutionary war, in which the latter received a serious wound, from which he 
never fully recovered.  J. M. Sweigart was brought up a farmer, and remained with 
his parents until he was nineteen years of age, when he began the trade of 
milling, which he has followed through life.  He came to York County, Penn., in 
1840, with his parents, who resided there until they died.  He purchased several 
old farms, improved them, and sold them again, and finally, in 1838, purchased 
what was known as Oil-Mill, a dilapidated structure, which he rebuilt, and which 
is now one of the best flour-mills in the county.  Its capacity is twenty barrels 
per day.  In 1850 he was married to Jane Stetler.  Having no children they 
adopted one – Jennie R. Stetler.