About 1910 ; 1910 Federal Census Arrow, Cascade MT[3]
At the time the Swan family was running a retail store which included the post office where my grandmother Sylvia Swan met my Grandfather Raymond Boone Barron there in Spein Kopp MT. east of Great Falls . It was a stop for the rail road, with cattle pens and a loading dock, and a small community of several buildings. Today, one can still see some foundations of these buildings, but the town is gone.
↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHQP-FH3 : 10 November 2020), George Benjamin Swan, 1 Mar 1862; citing Birth, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009364.
↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MLCJ-5W7 : accessed 11 October 2021), George B Swan, Arrow, Cascade, Montana, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 47, sheet 5A, family , NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 830; FHL microfilm 1,374,843.
↑ "California Death Index, 1940-1997," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VPQL-M2X : 26 November 2014), George B Swan, 08 Feb 1946; Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento.
George's wife died in 1913, leaving him with 3 attractive daughters,the 2 eldest were school teachers, the youngest, Sylvia was the post mistress and worked in the store . Where an endless parade of cowboys found excuses to come and shop. 1914 Montana had far more men than women I was told!
George's parents both died when he was young, he was then raised by his grandfather George w. Colby who sent him to Bowden college, a well respected college in Maine. George Colby was a surgeon with the 1st Maine cavalry during the civil war, he also attended Bowden college, the first Maine lost more men than did any other cavalry unit in the civil war.
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