History of Nemaha County, Kansas . is a breeder of Holstein cattle and keeps fifteen head of pure-breds on the farm. An itemizing of the livestock on the Swartz farmshows that there are sixty head of high-grade Durham cows, 300 head ofDuroc Jersey hogs, and 160 head of prime steers fattening for the mar-kets. Forty acres of this farm are sown to alfalfa. The parents of AlbertSwartz were Henry and Mary (Shumaker) Swartz, pioneer settlers ofNemaha county, whose biographies follow: Henry Swartz, father of Albert, was born in Germany in 1831, andbegan making his own way in his native land when sev
History of Nemaha County, Kansas . is a breeder of Holstein cattle and keeps fifteen head of pure-breds on the farm. An itemizing of the livestock on the Swartz farmshows that there are sixty head of high-grade Durham cows, 300 head ofDuroc Jersey hogs, and 160 head of prime steers fattening for the mar-kets. Forty acres of this farm are sown to alfalfa. The parents of AlbertSwartz were Henry and Mary (Shumaker) Swartz, pioneer settlers ofNemaha county, whose biographies follow: Henry Swartz, father of Albert, was born in Germany in 1831, andbegan making his own way in his native land when seventeen years he became of age he immigrated to America, in 1854. For a shorttime he made a living in New York by woodchopping and went from thatState to Indiana, where he followed railroad work until 1865. This wasthe date of his migration to Nemaha county, Kansas, where he investedin a quarter section of land, upon which he resided until his death in Swartz was a forehanded and industrious man who worked hard. fw H 02
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