. History of Illinois Republicanism, embracing a history of the Republican party in the state to the present time ... with biographies of its founders and supporters ... also a chronological statement of important political events since 1774. 625 CHARLES P. SWIGERT. Hon. Charles P. Swigert was born in Baden, Germany, November 27, 1843;his parents were Philip and Caroline Swigert. In 1848 his father was a sympa-thizer with the Revolutionary element, many of his people were active partici-pants in the Volunteer Revolutionary Army, and after the close of that stirringevent the country became very
. History of Illinois Republicanism, embracing a history of the Republican party in the state to the present time ... with biographies of its founders and supporters ... also a chronological statement of important political events since 1774. 625 CHARLES P. SWIGERT. Hon. Charles P. Swigert was born in Baden, Germany, November 27, 1843;his parents were Philip and Caroline Swigert. In 1848 his father was a sympa-thizer with the Revolutionary element, many of his people were active partici-pants in the Volunteer Revolutionary Army, and after the close of that stirringevent the country became very uncongenial for those men who had dared toassert their rights for political liberty. In the general exodus that followed,when such men as Hecker, Seigel, Brentano, Schurz and many others left theirnative country, the parents of the subject of this sketch also emigrated andsought a home in free America. They came to Chicago, where a brother ofPhilip had located in 1836. Here Charles got his first schooling at the Scam-mon School. In May, 1854, the family moved to Kankakee county, Illinois,and settled on a farm. In July, 1861, at the age of seventeen, he enlisted in Company H, Forty-second Illinois Volunteer Infantry, for three years,
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