Hollis U. SWALLUM

SWALLUM, FERGUSON

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 8/23/2016 at 20:26:01

November 25, 1866 ----- September 18, 1909

Hollis U. Swallum was born at Shellsburg, Iowa, Nov. 25, 1866, died at Waterloo, Iowa, Sept. 18, 1909. Was married to Jennie M. Ferguson at Goldfield, Iowa, June 2, 1898; was in drug business at Goldfield, Garwin, Belle Plaine, and Hubbard, Iowa; sold his drug business to O. E. Olein, Jan. 1, 1909, on account of failing health; went to Del Norte, Colorado, three weeks before his death, dying at his wife's father's home at Waterloo while he was waiting for his household goods to arrive. He left a wife, one child, Beatrice, aged 7 years, beside four brothers and four sisters and father.

He became a registered pharmacist by examination, April 7, 1896, from Hubbard, the number of his certificate being 5046. He became a member of the Iowa Pharmaceutical Association, July 14, 1905, during the annual meeting at Des Moines.

Proceedings of the Iowa Pharmaceutical Association, Volumes 30-34, page 94.