The full biographical sketch as printed, transcribed from the public-domain book. Spelling and wording are the original author’s; a few scanning errors may remain.
H. E. SWOPE.
H. E. Swope, who has been successfully engaged in merchandising at Marathon since 1900, was born in Jlaryland on the 11th of October, 186S, his parents l)eing J. H. and Sarah Jane (Bell) Swope, natives of Maryland ana Virginia respectively. The year 1871 witnessed their arrival in Polk county, Iowa. The father was called to his final rest in 1876 at the comparatively early age of thirty-seven years, but the mother still survives and makes her home in Des Moines.
At the usual age H. E. Swope became a pupil in the public schools of Des Moines hut his advantages in that direction were limited by the necessity of having to contribute to the support of the family. When a young man of eighteen years he became connected with the grain and live stock business in Des Moines and thus continued until liis entrance into the field of merchan- dising as proprietor of a general st(u-e. In l!)()(l he came to Marathon, Iowa, where he has since remained as a general merchant, his patronage steadily increasing by reason of his well selected line of goods, reasonable prices and reliable business methods. He likewise owns a store at Webb and one at Varina, Iowa. His landed holdings include a valual)le farm of one hundred and sixty acres north of Marathon, as well as a tract of land in Wyoming, and he is widely recognized as a most .substantial .ind progressive citizen of this county.
On the 30th of August, 1893, .Mr. Swope was united in marriage to Miss Jessie West. Unto our subject and liis wife have been born two children: Lureue and Adelbert, the latter, however, died at tlu- age of three and one lialf years and is buried at ]\Iarathon.
Since age conferred upon him the right of franchise ilr. Swope has given liis pi)litic;d allegiance to the repul)lican [larty. Tlis fraternal relations are
with tlip Masons and llic Woodmen. IIi' has liceii watchful of liis oppor- tunities, has improved tliem. and year after year has made consecutive advancement until he is now numhered among the leading and jtrospcrous merchants and business men of his adopted county.
Source: Past and Present of Buena Vista County, Iowa. See the original pages at the Internet Archive.
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