BIO: GEORGE W. SWARNER, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 419-420
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    GEORGE W. SWARNER, a wealthy land owner of Dickinson township, Cumberland
  county, where he has been successfully engaged as an agriculturist for many
  years, is a native of Spring township, Perry county, Pa., born Sept. 21, 1843.
    
    George Swarner, his father, was also a native of Perry county. He was born
  in 1795, and received a good common school education for the times. During
  the troublesome times of the war of 1812 he entered his country's service,
  and was stationed at Philadelphia during the greater part of his term of
  enlistment. When discharged he returned to Perry county, and made his home
  there until his death. He married
    
    420	CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
    
  Hannah Snyder, and their children were: Henry B., who married Mary Reiber,
  daughter of George Reiber, and lives in West Pennsboro township, Cumberland
  County; John A., mentioned elsewhere; George W.; William, who died in 1896;
  and Annie, who married H. C. Sweigart, of Carlisle, and had twin daughters,
  Minnie and Minna, both married and living in Carlisle. George Swarner had two
  sisters, one being Maria.
    
    George W. Swarner was born in Perry county, as above stated. The public
  schools of his native township afforded him his educational facilities. His
  early training was all in the line of farm work, and it was but natural that
  on attaining man's estate he should follow that work. In 1866 he came to
  Cumberland county, and rented from a Mr. Sugar a farm in North Middleton town
  ship, where he remained until 1870, when he settled on a farm in South
  Middleton township, which was his home until 1883, the year of his removal to
  Dickinson township. In the latter township he purchased the old Park Peffer
  farm of ninety-nine acres of rich land, on which he at once erected a new
  barn. He also repaired the house, making of it a substantial dwelling. In
  1887 he bought the farm known as the William G. Peffer farm, containing 101
  acres, and still later he became the owner of forty-one acres adjoining. His
  property has been the accumulation of his own economy, and that of his good
  wife. He is typically a self-made man, having received little aid from
  friends or relatives. In 1899, determined to rest from active work, he came
  to Carlisle, and purchased a fine home at No. 226 West South street, which he
  improved, making it a thoroughly comfortable modern home.
    
    In 1868 Mr. Swarner was united in marriage with Catherine Zinn, daughter of
  Peter and Elizabeth Zinn, of Lancaster county. To bless their union have come
  children as follows: Harry E., born May 31, 1869, married Minnie C. Roush,
  daughter of John and Maria Roush, and died in Carlisle May 15, 1903, his
  widow still residing in that city; she has one child, Earl Bryan Swarner.
  Frank, born Oct. 18, 1873, in South Middleton township, married Effie
  Albright, daughter of William and Fannie Albright, and lives on one of his
  father's farms in Dickinson township, four and a half miles southwest of
  Carlisle; they have two children, Paul Z. and Frank B. Charles C., born Feb.
  4, 1884, is at home.

    PETER ZINN, father of Mrs. Swarner, was born and raised in Lancaster
  county. About 1832 he came with his family to Dickinson township, Cumberland
  county, and located about seven miles from Carlisle, at a place called
  Mooredale. He married Elizabeth Kegerries, who was also born and raised in
  Lancaster county, and they became the parents of the following children:
  Mary, who married John King, who lives in Iowa, and has a family of five
  children; Amos, who was drowned at the age of eleven, by falling into a well,
  about two miles from home; John H., mentioned below; Elizabeth, who married
  Charles Feree, of near Williamson, Franklin county, and has two children,
  Harvey and Clemie; Catherine, born Jan. 21. 1843, in Dickinson township
  (where she was educated), who married George W. Swarner; and Frank, who is
  married and has one child, and who makes his home in Peoria, Illinois.