I. W. (Isaac W.) Switzer Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

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Submitted by David W. Taft, dtaft@cowtown.net

History of Grant County Wisconsin
Western Historical Publishing, Chicago, July 1881
Town of Fennimore, Biographical Sketches, Page 990

I. W. (Isaac W.) SWITZER, farmer, Sec. 8 son of John Switzer, one of the 
earliest settlers of Grant Co.; Mr. John Switzer was born in Virginia Feb. 20, 
1803; his parents removed to the Territory of Ohio, when he was 3 years of age, 
and afterward to Indiana.  He came to Grant Co. in 1840, and settled on Sec. 8, 
town of Fennimore.  He was married March 1, 1842, to Mary A. C. Dillon, born in 
Missouri.  Mr. John Switzer died Jan. 11, 1863.  Mrs. Switzer still resides at 
the homestead.  Her children are Mary A., born Sept. 17, 1844; I. W., Dec. 
5,1846; Sarah E., Aug. 11, 1849; Eliza, July 30, 1853; Stella, Oct., 8,1858, and 
Ada, April 7, 1861.  The children were all born at the homestead. I. W. was 
married to Pora, daughter of Mr. John Dinsdale; they have two children - Myrta 
and Bertram.