Phebe (Lapham) Swartwout (1799 - 1867)

Born 9 Jul 1799 in Stamford, Dutchess, New York, USA

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Died 11 Nov 1867 at age 68 in Stamford, Dutchess, New York, USA

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Biography

Phebe was born to Reuben and Betsey Lapham in Dutchess County, NY in 1799.^{[1] [2]}

She married a steamboat captain named Cornelius J. Swartwout, also from Dutchess County.^[3] They had seven children. ^[3] Alonzo was born in 1817.^[3][2] Two daughters came before Alonzo (Mary Kate and Emma) and he was followed by Alice and Robert.^[4]

Cornelius was a captain on the Hudson, travelling between Albany and New York City, where the family lived between Alonzo's birth and 1837. ^[3] They moved West to Quincy, Illinois in 1837.^[3] Cornelius worked there for the Patent Lands office.^[3] He became an Alderman in Quincy and was a Whig and later a Republican.^[3]

Phoebe died during a visit home to Dutchess County in 1867.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ W. Sterns, History and Biographical Record of Lenawee County, Michigan Volume 1, 1879, p. 131, available online through Google Books[1]
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch ([2] : 30 December 2015), Phoebe Swartwout in entry for Cornelius J Swartwout, 1860.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7} Portrait and Biographical Record of Adams County, Illinois, Chapman Brothers: Chicago (1892), p. 574, available online through Google Books as of June 18, 2017[3]
4. ↑ "Laphams in America" compiled and written by Bertha Bortle Beal Aldridge Victor NY 1932-1953, page 129, accessed 3 September 2021 through the Internet Archive's Open Library at https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24618831M/Laphams_in_America.