J. B. SWAIN
J. B. Swain was born at Randolph, Ind., in 1825; moved to Dallas county, Ind., in 1854, and engaged in farming for two years; then moved to Denison, Crawford county, being one of the first to locate there; remained until the spring of 1859; then came to Shelby, and built a mill in Grove township, which he sold to Milton Lynch, in 1861. He again engaged in farming, until his removal to Dunlap, when it was first laid out, in 1867, and the following year opened a harness shop, which business he sold to his son, E. C. Swain. He purchased the Harlan House of J. M. Long, conducted it for five years, and in the spring of 1879 erected the Swain House, which he conducted until April, 1881, when he leased to E. Gish, and retired from active business. He was married in Wayne county, Ind., in 1846, to Irena Whitenger, and has three sons and five daughters.
Transcribed February, 2018 by Cheryl Siebrass from: History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, published in Sioux City, IA.: Western Publishing Company, 1882, pg. 425.
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