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Surnames: Swick, Suma, Soumme
Classification: Biography
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This book has no cover, and no index, and no author. I bought it on Ebay; it just has the
insides, but it is full of Indiana biographies. I am not researching this family, just
thought I would share. I do not know anymore about these families or these surnames. NOTE:
I don’t know if there is any additional mention of this family in the book, it has no
index. I do not want to sell this book. I am typing the biographies from it.
Typed by Lora Radiches:
Surnames in this biography are: Swick, Suma, Soumme,
JOHN W. SWICK. Among the prominent and enterprising agriculturists of Kosciusko
County, one who has achieved position and prosperity through industry, good management and
the recognition of advantageous opportunities is John W. Swick, whose productive and
modernly improved farm is situated seven miles northwest of Silver Lake. Mr. Swick
is one of the men of his locality in whom his fellow-citizens place full confidence and
since 1922 he has served as a member of the board of trustees of Franklin
Township. John W. Swick was born July 18, 1869, in Cass County, Indiana, where his father
was the owner of a farm, and where the youth spent his early days, in the meantime
attending the rural schools. Subsequently he pursued a course at the normal school at
Mentone, which fitted him for an educational career, and during the next eighteen years
was a teacher in the schools of Seward and Franklin townships. At the end of that period
he returned to farming, an!
d is now the owner of a highly developed farm in Franklin Township, seven miles northwest
of Silver Lake, although his post office is at Akron. Mr. Swick is one of the progressive
men of his locality and makes a study of his vocation, which he carries on under the most
highly approved modern methods. His buildings are large and commodious and his machinery
and implements are up to date in every respect. A Democrat in his political allegiance, he
served as township assessor for two terms, and in 1922 was elected a member of the board
of trustees of Franklin Township, to which office he was reelected in 1926. He has an
excellent public record, and is known as an energetic and conscientious public servant,
who has done much for the furtherance and betterment of his adopted community. He is a
devout member of the Church of God. On October 2, 1891, Mr. Swick was united in
marriage with Miss Malinda Suma, and they became the parents of one child, Guy,
who died in !
1895. Mrs. Swick died in January, 1896, and in 1897 Mr. Swick married Miss Louise Soumme,
by whom he has had eight children: Faye, Dave, Everett, Jay, Lena, Dale, Dorothy and
Annabelle, all of whom are living with their parents on the home farm.