. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. ^r, \' '"•^ "^?ol. ,SV/\lZ£R. B. BATTICE BRANSON SWITZER. Battice Branson Switzer was born in Bradford, Steuben Co., N. Y., Oct. 20, 1817. He was the son of John and Sarah Switzer, and grandson of Henry Switzer, of German extraction. Henry Switzer came from New Jersey with his family, and settled in Steuben County about the year 1800. He was two days in coming from Sa
. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. ^r, \' '"•^ "^?ol. ,SV/\lZ£R. B. BATTICE BRANSON SWITZER. Battice Branson Switzer was born in Bradford, Steuben Co., N. Y., Oct. 20, 1817. He was the son of John and Sarah Switzer, and grandson of Henry Switzer, of German extraction. Henry Switzer came from New Jersey with his family, and settled in Steuben County about the year 1800. He was two days in coming from Savona to what is now known as Bradford, then known as Jersey. Henry Switzer reared a family of twelve children, of whom John, the father of the subject of this sketch, was the eighth. John Switzer, the father of Bat- tice Branson, shared the early struggles and hardships of the pioneers of Steuben County. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, being then twenty-six years of age. He died in 1860. With such an ancestry, and among such scenes as were known in the early history, was the subject of this sketch born and reared. He was the first son of John Switzer, and one of a family of six children, of whom the following were the mem- bers, viz.: Lawrence, Julia Ann, Battice Branson, Richard Hall, Jacob Nefi*, and Andrew Jackson. Battice Branson Switzer was married to Eliza Littell, Jan. 5, 1842. After his marriage, and during the same year, upon the farm of one hundred acres given him by his father, and upon which his son John now resides, he commenced farming. During his whole life he has followed the occupation of a farmer, and in his early life chopped and cleared land to a considerable extent. He was always regarded as one of the representative farmers of Bradford. His early advantages for education were limited, but he was re- garded by his fellow-citizens as a successful business man of more than ordinary ability. Was simple in his habits, energetic in his business, and exac
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