ID: I638089388
Name: Francis Asbusy SWANGER
Given Name: Francis Asbusy
Surname: Swanger
Sex: M
Birth: 3 May 1859 in Milroy,Mifflin,PA
Death: 9 Feb 1939
Census: 1860 Milan,Sullivan,MO
Census: 1880 Polk,Sullivan,MO
Census: 1900 Woodlawn,Yolo,CA
Census: 1910 Campbell,Greene,MO
Census: 1920 Bannock Co,ID
Census: 1930 Nezperce,Lewis,ID
Change Date: 29 Apr 2006
Note: The following biographical information regarding Francis Asbury Swanger appeared in Herringshaw, Thomas William: "Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century", Chicago, IL: American Publishers' Association, 1902.
BIOGRAPHY: SWANGER, FRANCIS ASBURY, educator, college president, was born May 3, 1859, in Milroy, Pa. He attended the State Normal school of Kirksville, Mo., and the State university of Columbia, and has had the degrees of M.S.D. and A.M. conferred upon him. For many years he taught in the district schools of Sullivan county, Mo., and has been principal of schools in Greencastle, Lancaster and Kirksville. He taught physics and language in the State Normal school of Kirksville, Mo, during 1889-91; then taught mathematics until 1894; since which time he has been president of that institution of learning.
Father: Jefferson SWANGER b: 30 May 1830 in Beavertown,Union,PA
Mother: Sarah Ann CAMPE b: 30 Apr 1833 in Huntington Co,PA
Marriage 1
Ada Jean SMITH b: Sep 1868 in IA
- Married:
25 Aug 1887
in Lancaster,Schuyler,MO
- Event: Children
Unknown
in one child
- Note: _STATMARRIED
Marriage 2
Mary Pelagie CLAY b: 22 Sep 1872 in Sedalia,Douglas,CO
- Married:
12 Nov 1909
- Event: Children
Unknown
in two children
- Note: _STATMARRIED
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