Diodate L. Swan

Family

Sources

1. 1875 Springfield MA Directory, advertising dept.: 'D. L. Swan & Sons, Proprietors' — caskets and coffins, wholesale and retail, cor. Market & Sanford Sts., Springfield.

   1875 Springfield MA Directory, advertising dept.: 'D. L. Swan & Sons, Proprietors' — caskets and coffins, wholesale and retail, cor. Market & Sanford Sts., Springfield.

2. Springfield Daily Republican, Wed Aug 14, 1918, p. 2, obituary 'WILBUR M. SWAN Well-Known Business Man Dies at 62': "At the age of 18 he went into his father's business, which was then the D. L. Swan & Sons' company, and later became the New England card and paper company. He was married to Miss Mary C [Bemis]". Matches wilbur-martindale-swan-1856: same obituary (age 62, b. Agawam, wife Mary C. Bemis, sons Douglas and Hobart Bemis Swan, sister Leila W. Tapley per masslive index of the 15 Aug 1918 notice). Father = D. L. (Diodate L.) Swan, proprietor of D. L. Swan & Sons, Springfield (1875 Springfield directory ad).

   Springfield Daily Republican, Wed Aug 14, 1918, p. 2, obituary 'WILBUR M. SWAN Well-Known Business Man Dies at 62': "At the age of 18 he went into his father's business, which was then the D. L. Swan & Sons' company, and later became the New England card and paper company. He was married to Miss Mary C [Bemis]". Matches wilbur-martindale-swan-1856: same obituary (age 62, b. Agawam, wife Mary C. Bemis, sons Douglas and Hobart Bemis Swan, sister Leila W. Tapley per masslive index of the 15 Aug 1918 notice). Father = D. L. (Diodate L.) Swan, proprietor of D. L. Swan & Sons, Springfield (1875 Springfield directory ad).

3. Swan v. Tapley, 216 Mass. 61 (1913): petition filed Oct 23, 1911 'for the partition and sale of certain real estate in Springfield ... among the heirs at law of Diodate L. Swan, late of Springfield, one of whom was Leila W. Tapley', the real estate having 'belonged to his wife's father who died intestate'. Leila W. Tapley is named as Wilbur M. Swan's sibling in his 1918 obituary (https://archives.masslive.com/articles/obituary/1061836051/126ca7c8-7df2-48db-b786-718912d3500f/), so Wilbur's father = Diodate L. Swan of Springfield.

   Swan v. Tapley, 216 Mass. 61 (1913): petition filed Oct 23, 1911 'for the partition and sale of certain real estate in Springfield ... among the heirs at law of Diodate L. Swan, late of Springfield, one of whom was Leila W. Tapley', the real estate having 'belonged to his wife's father who died intestate'. Leila W. Tapley is named as Wilbur M. Swan's sibling in his 1918 obituary (https://archives.masslive.com/articles/obituary/1061836051/126ca7c8-7df2-48db-b786-718912d3500f/), so Wilbur's father = Diodate L. Swan of Springfield.

4. Beers, Commemorative Biographical Record of Middlesex County, Connecticut (1903), p. 543, Ralph B. Swan sketch: "(V) Jabez Swan, son of Asa, was born May 21, 1751. On June 17, 1772, he married (first) Mehitable Wheeler, and for his second wife he wedded Lucy Wheeler. In 1777 he sold his property in Stonington... invested in a farm near Millington green, in East Haddam, and on May 22, 1777, moved there. Jabez and Mehitable (Wheeler) Swan had the following named children: Hurlburt, Mehitable, Jabez, Jr., ... By the second wife, Lucy (Wheeler), there were two children... (VI) Hurlburt and Hannah (Esterbrook) Swan, the paternal grandparents of Ralph B., were farming people of East Haddam". Independently, Davis, The New England States (1897) p. 332: "Jabez Swan, the great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born in Stonington, Conn., in 1750, and removed to East Haddam, Conn., in 1776... Hurlbert Swan, son of Jabez". Matches hurlbert-swan: wife Hannah Estabrook (both sources); East Haddam (both); father of Diodate L. Swan Sr.

   Beers, Commemorative Biographical Record of Middlesex County, Connecticut (1903), pp. 543–544, Ralph B. Swan sketch: "(VII) Diodet L. Swan, the father of Ralph B., was born about 1800, in Lyme, Conn., where he grew to manhood. By his first wife, Mary Cone, he had one child, Mary, who married Eliphalet Emmons… For his second wife he married Mary Eliza Wells, daughter of Asa Wells… and they became the parents of nine children: (1) Diodet L., who lived in Springfield, Mass., where he died at the age of seventy years; (2) Francis W. … (7) Ralph B. …" Matches diodate-l-swan: exact name Diodet/Diodate L. Swan of Springfield MA; already locked as father of wilbur-martindale-swan-1856 via D. L. Swan & Sons Springfield business and Swan v. Tapley heirs; died ~age 70 (fits ~1824–~1894/95). Mother named Mary Eliza Wells in same contemporaneous county biography.

5. William T. Davis (ed.), The New England States (Boston: D. H. Hurd, 1897), vol. 1, pp. 332-333, sketch "DIODATE LORD SWAN": "Diodate Lord Swan, the subject of this sketch. Mr. Swan was born in East Haddam, July 24, 1824 ... removal to Springfield in 1846 ... New England Card and Paper Company ... associated with his three sons, under the firm-name of D. L. Swan & Sons ... Alderman 1876-77-78 ward six ... Mr. Swan died in Springfield April 13, 1859 [OCR/typo; ~1895]".

   William T. Davis (ed.), The New England States (Boston: D. H. Hurd, 1897), vol. 1, pp. 332-333, sketch "DIODATE LORD SWAN": "Diodate Lord Swan, the subject of this sketch. Mr. Swan was born in East Haddam, July 24, 1824 ... removal to Springfield in 1846 ... New England Card and Paper Company ... associated with his three sons, under the firm-name of D. L. Swan & Sons ... Alderman 1876-77-78 ward six ... Mr. Swan died in Springfield April 13, 1859 [OCR/typo; ~1895]".

6. Springfield Daily Republican, Wed Aug 14, 1918, p. 2, obituary 'WILBUR M. SWAN Well-Known Business Man Dies at 62': "At the age of 18 he went into his father's business, which was then the D. L. Swan & Sons' company, and later became the New England card and paper company. He was married to Miss Mary C [Bemis]". Matches wilbur-martindale-swan-1856: same obituary (age 62, b. Agawam, wife Mary C. Bemis, sons Douglas and Hobart Bemis Swan, sister Leila W. Tapley per masslive index of the 15 Aug 1918 notice). Father = D. L. (Diodate L.) Swan, proprietor of D. L. Swan & Sons, Springfield (1875 Springfield directory ad).

   Springfield Daily Republican, Wed Aug 14, 1918, p. 2, obituary 'WILBUR M. SWAN Well-Known Business Man Dies at 62': "At the age of 18 he went into his father's business, which was then the D. L. Swan & Sons' company, and later became the New England card and paper company. He was married to Miss Mary C [Bemis]". Matches wilbur-martindale-swan-1856: same obituary (age 62, b. Agawam, wife Mary C. Bemis, sons Douglas and Hobart Bemis Swan, sister Leila W. Tapley per masslive index of the 15 Aug 1918 notice). Father = D. L. (Diodate L.) Swan, proprietor of D. L. Swan & Sons, Springfield (1875 Springfield directory ad).

7. William T. Davis (ed.), The New England States (Boston: D. H. Hurd, 1897), vol. 1, pp. 332-333, sketch "DIODATE LORD SWAN": "Diodate Lord Swan, the subject of this sketch. Mr. Swan was born in East Haddam, July 24, 1824 ... removal to Springfield in 1846 ... New England Card and Paper Company ... associated with his three sons, under the firm-name of D. L. Swan & Sons ... Alderman 1876-77-78 ward six ... Mr. Swan died in Springfield April 13, 1859 [OCR/typo; ~1895]".

   William T. Davis (ed.), The New England States (Boston: D. H. Hurd, 1897), vol. 1, pp. 332-333, sketch "DIODATE LORD SWAN": "Mr. Swan married, August 22, 1850, Lydia Jane, daughter of Richard and Lydia (Martindale) Chamberlain, of Holyoke, Mass., and had six children — Ella Jennie, born in Springfield October 16, 1851...; Frank Newell, born in Springfield April 4, 1854...; Wilbur Martindale, born July 14, 1856, who married Mary Catherine Bemis, of Chicopee, Mass.; Frederick Richard, born August 29, 1859; Leila Wells, born March 25, 1862, who married George K. Tapley, of Springfield, and Hobart Estabrook, born May 18, 1864..." Same sketch: business carried on "associated with his three sons, under the firm-name of D. L. Swan & Sons." Matches wilbur-martindale-swan-1856: name Wilbur Martindale; b. July 14, 1856 (= Yale Class of 1918 S. history: father Wilbur Martindale Swan "born July 14, 1856, in Agawam"); wife Mary Catherine Bemis (= Mary C. Bemis in 1918 obit); sister Leila Wells m. George K. Tapley (= Leila W. Tapley, sibling in 1918 obit / heir in Swan v. Tapley); D. L. Swan & Sons. So Wilbur's mother = Lydia Jane (Chamberlain) Swan.

8. Beers, Commemorative Biographical Record of Middlesex County, Connecticut (1903), p. 543, Ralph B. Swan sketch: "(V) Jabez Swan, son of Asa, was born May 21, 1751. On June 17, 1772, he married (first) Mehitable Wheeler, and for his second wife he wedded Lucy Wheeler. In 1777 he sold his property in Stonington... invested in a farm near Millington green, in East Haddam, and on May 22, 1777, moved there. Jabez and Mehitable (Wheeler) Swan had the following named children: Hurlburt, Mehitable, Jabez, Jr., ... By the second wife, Lucy (Wheeler), there were two children... (VI) Hurlburt and Hannah (Esterbrook) Swan, the paternal grandparents of Ralph B., were farming people of East Haddam". Independently, Davis, The New England States (1897) p. 332: "Jabez Swan, the great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born in Stonington, Conn., in 1750, and removed to East Haddam, Conn., in 1776... Hurlbert Swan, son of Jabez". Matches hurlbert-swan: wife Hannah Estabrook (both sources); East Haddam (both); father of Diodate L. Swan Sr.

   Beers, Commemorative Biographical Record of Middlesex County, Connecticut (1903), pp. 543–544, Ralph B. Swan sketch: "(VII) Diodet L. Swan, the father of Ralph B., was born about 1800, in Lyme, Conn., where he grew to manhood. By his first wife, Mary Cone, he had one child, Mary, who married Eliphalet Emmons… For his second wife he married Mary Eliza Wells, daughter of Asa Wells… and they became the parents of nine children: (1) Diodet L., who lived in Springfield, Mass., where he died at the age of seventy years; (2) Francis W. … (7) Ralph B. …" Matches diodate-l-swan: exact name Diodet/Diodate L. Swan of Springfield MA; already locked as father of wilbur-martindale-swan-1856 via D. L. Swan & Sons Springfield business and Swan v. Tapley heirs; died ~age 70 (fits ~1824–~1894/95). Mother named Mary Eliza Wells in same contemporaneous county biography.