John Switzer Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

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

Commemorative Biographical Record of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa, and Lafayette 
Counties, Wisconsin
J. H. Beers, 1901
Pg. 487

JOHN SWITZER, one of the earliest settlers of Grant county, Wis., was born in Virginia 
Feb. 20, 1803, and when he was but three years of age his parents removed to Ohio, and 
later to Indiana.  In 1840 John Switzer came to Grant county, Wis., settling in Sec. 8, 
in the town of Fennimore, and two years later he was married to Mary A. C. Dillon, who 
was born in Missouri.  Of this marriage the following children were born: Mary A., born 
Sept. 17, 1844 (Mrs. George H. Horton); I. W., born Dec. 5, 1840; Sarah E., born Aug. 11, 
1849; Eliza, born July 30, 1853; Stella, born Oct. 8, 1858; and Ada, born April 7, 1861.  
Mr. Switzer became one of the well known and successful farmers of Fennimore, and resided 
in that town until the day of his death, Jan. 11, 1863.  Mrs. Switzer, at this writing, 
in 1901, resides with one of her daughters, in Fennimore, and is now one of the oldest 
residents of the town where she has lived such a useful, busy life.