SWIGART, FRANK: 1840-1912.
" Frank Swigart was born in Ohio in 1840. When he was two years old his family moved to Cass County, Ind., where he grew to manhood. In 1865 he married Margaret I. Cline and they had five children. He enlisted with the 46th Indiana Regiment during the Civil War and rose to the rank of captain. He was a presidential elector in 1888 and chief of the law division of the Treasury Department from 1889 to 1893. He also served as referee in bankruptcy for eight years. He died in 1912. He was the author of many short stories and articles for the NATIONAL TRIBUNE and New York and Philadelphia papers …"
From Powell–History of Cass Country, 1913.
- A History of the Forty-Sixth Regiment Indiana Volunteer
Infantry. September, 1861–September, 1865. Compiled by Order of
the Regimental Association (withThomas H. Bringhurst). n.p. [Logansport], 1888.
- Mary Lawson. Boston, 1909.
