Excerpt from History of the Swander Family
This book is written in compliance with a request made at the fourth family reunion of the Swanders, convened August 12, 1897, at Riverview Park, near Tiffin, Seneca County, Ohio. The question of publishing such a history had been talked about and discussed for a number of years. During that time a few members of the family were industriously yet quietly engaged in the very laborious work of gathering the information necessary to the production of such a book. Among these diligent workers may be mentioned Edward Swander, of Clinton Township, Seneca County, Ohio, Rev. John I. Swander, of Tiffin, Ohio, and Major Daniel Swander, of Moline, Illinois. The Major, however, is entitled to the greater share of the credit for long and diligent inquiry and research in this laudible undertaking. For this reason he was selected, requested and authorized to prepare and superintend the preparation of this historic volume. After due deliberation and some hesitancy, owing to that peculiar modesty which has always characterized the Swander family, the Major obtained the consent of his mind to undertake the work which his numerous relatives had placed at the point of his pen. Not even then did he fully consent to enter upon the arduous duties of the family chronicler until the writer of this introduction had promised him assistance.
The above arrangement, however, like many other human plans, was subject to interruption and change. On November 13, 1898, the appointed historian was somewhat suddenly called by Providence to discontinue the work in which he had shown such untiring interest, and for which he had demonstrated no small measure of fitness.
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