By 1903, our great grandparents Henry and Mabel Tuttle Swan had permanently moved from Mankato, Minnesota to Ontario, California. Henry was 40 years old, Mabel 37. Their daughter Margaret, our grandmother, was 8. The population of Ontario, the Model Colony, grew from around 700 in 1900 to over 4,000 by 1910 and 8,000 by theContinue reading “Prosperity, Service and High Esteem in the Model Colony”
Category Archives: Swan
The Swan and Ingalls Families of England and Massachusetts
Having previously traced the ancestry of great grandfather Henry Edson Swan back to Silas Swan and Silas Kenworthy (Vermont, Ohio, Minnesota and California), we now move back to earlier generations. Our Swan ancestry goes back to colonial Massachusetts and Yorkshire England as shown below. (Another link we have to Yorkshire, England is in the ancestryContinue reading “The Swan and Ingalls Families of England and Massachusetts”
Did the Swans and Calderwoods know each other in Vermont?
Both our Calderwood and Swan ancestors lived in the same small region in northern Vermont in the 19th century. This raises two questions: Did the two families know each other there? Is it just coincidence that the two family branches from Vermont would merge in 1921 in Ontario, California with the marriage of grandparents JoeContinue reading “Did the Swans and Calderwoods know each other in Vermont?”
The Swan and Kenworthy Families of Mankato
A good anchor point for the story of great grandfather Henry Edson Swan is this lithograph published by Alfred Theodore Andreas in 1874 as part of a larger collection of 19th century maps of the midwest. Grandma Margaret gave a copy of this to Claire years ago. Henry’s parents (our second great grandparents) were JamesContinue reading “The Swan and Kenworthy Families of Mankato”
Bridging the Silences 