John,
Earlier you were looking for Decatur Co.people in Ks. Here is one.
Marilyn Merritt
Kansas and Kansans: Volume 5
Mr. Glenn Swogger was born at Idana, Kansas, May 6, 1895, son of Rev. John S.
and Sylvia (Meek) Swogger. Rev. John S. Swogger was born at New Wilmington,
Pennsylvania, July 11, 1866, a son of William H. and Sally Jane (Pollard)
Swogger, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of Kentucky. Rev.
John S. Swogger grew up on his father's farm in Mercer County, Pennsylvania.
He acquired a liberal education, receiving the degree A. B. from Westminster
College at New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, in 1888, and the following three
years was in the Allegheny Theological Seminary, graduating with the class of
1892. He was then regularly ordained a minister of the United Presbyterian
Church at Idana, Kansas, in 1892. His ministerial career covers a quarter of
a century and he has filled pulpits at Chetopa, Kansas, Alliance, Nebraska
and from 1911 to 1917 was located at Edgerton, Kansas. He moved in the fall
of 1917 to Oakland, Kansas, where he is now preaching. He and his wife were
married at Idana December 26, 1892. His wife was born at Spring Hill,
Indiana, June 30, 1875, daughter of Captain John A. and Martha (Meek) Meek,
both natives of Decatur County, Indiana. She was educated in the old United
Presbyterian College, Tarkio College of Tarkio, Missouri. Rev. Mr. Swogger
and wife have two children, Glenn and Hazel. Hazel was born at Idana, Kansas,
June 24, 1897, and completed her education in Washburn College where she
specialized in music.