Swan, Cyrus

SWAN, HARVEY, DORAN, TEEPLE, NODLE, COOK

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Date: 2/14/2003 at 20:56:28

Source: "The 1901 Biographical Record of Clinton Co., Iowa, Illustrated" published: Chicago : S. J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1901.

CYRUS SWAN

Among the young farmers of Clinton county whose places manifest to the most casual observer the energy and ability of the owner in his chosen calling, is the subject of this personal history, who is residing on section one, Sharon township. He was born November 30, 1872, on the farm where he still makes his home, and belongs to an old and prominent family of that part of the county, being a son of Robert R. and Elizabeth H. (Harvey) Swan, the former a native of New York City, the latter of Livingston county, New York. The father was born on the 14th of November, 1829, and at the age of seven years accompanied his father on his removal from his native city to Connecticut. At the age of seventeen he came west and located in Lake county, Illinois, where he spent fifteen years. In 1848 he removed to Jackson county, Iowa, but after residing in Monmouth township for a short time came to Clinton county. During his early residence here he lived on various farms in Brookfield, in Sharon township, but finally in 1867 located on the present farm of our subject on section one, Sharon township, to the improvement and cultivation of which he devoted his time and energies throughout the remainder of his life. He taught two terms of school in Sharon township, and always took an active interest in educational affairs, serving as school director some time. He also held the offices of township trustee and deputy constable, and performed the duties of those positions in a most creditable and satisfactory manner. He died on the 9th of March, 1890, honored and respected by all who knew him. His widow now resides with her children.

Cyrus W. Swan is the fourth in order of birth in a family of five children, the others being as follows: Hattie, wife of William Doran, who is a teamster of Maquoketa, Iowa; Emma, wife of Wilson Teeple, a stock-buyer of Nashville, Iowa; Ida B., wife of William Nodle, a prominent farmer of Sharon township; and William Thomas, who died in infancy. The children were all educated in the common schools of this county.

In early life our subject assisted his father in the operation of the farm, and after his marriage took charge of a part of the old homestead. He now owns one hundred acres of land in Sharon township, and is successfully engaged in general farming and stock raising. He was married in April, 1893, to Miss Amelia Cook, of Sharon township, and they have two children: Grace, born January 4, 1894; and Hazel, born April 20, 1896.

Mr. Swan has always taken a very active interest in politics, and votes the Republican ticket. He is now capably serving as school director in district No. 2. Fraternally he is a member of Camp No. 3728, Modern Woodmen of America, at Lost Nation. Wide-awake and energetic, he is not only succeeding in business, but gives his influence to all measures calculated to prove of public benefit.