Son of Josiah and Eleanor (Spooner) Swift.
Married Martha Coney Flint in Sep 1834 at Bath, Maine.
The obituary for Reverend J.S. Swift in the 29 Mar 1883 issue of the Farmington Chronicle stated that his funeral services were to be held at Wilton, and the interment was to be in Riverside Cemetery.
Swift was a 19th Century Renaissance man. He was a Freewill Baptist minister, an orchardist and nurseryman, and an amateur artist. See, for instance, his "Sketch of Androscoggin River" at the Maine Historical Society's Maine Memory Network https://www.mainememory.net/artifact/25774. He is best known as a publisher, characterized as "the father of journalism in Franklin County [Maine]."
Bates College in Lewiston, Maine holds his early papers as part of the Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library http://abacus.bates.edu/muskie-archives/EADFindingAids/MC010.html.
Married Martha Coney Flint in Sep 1834 at Bath, Maine.
The obituary for Reverend J.S. Swift in the 29 Mar 1883 issue of the Farmington Chronicle stated that his funeral services were to be held at Wilton, and the interment was to be in Riverside Cemetery.
Swift was a 19th Century Renaissance man. He was a Freewill Baptist minister, an orchardist and nurseryman, and an amateur artist. See, for instance, his "Sketch of Androscoggin River" at the Maine Historical Society's Maine Memory Network https://www.mainememory.net/artifact/25774. He is best known as a publisher, characterized as "the father of journalism in Franklin County [Maine]."
Bates College in Lewiston, Maine holds his early papers as part of the Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library http://abacus.bates.edu/muskie-archives/EADFindingAids/MC010.html.
Son of Josiah and Eleanor (Spooner) Swift.
Married Martha Coney Flint in Sep 1834 at Bath, Maine.
The obituary for Reverend J.S. Swift in the 29 Mar 1883 issue of the Farmington Chronicle stated that his funeral services were to be held at Wilton, and the interment was to be in Riverside Cemetery.
Swift was a 19th Century Renaissance man. He was a Freewill Baptist minister, an orchardist and nurseryman, and an amateur artist. See, for instance, his "Sketch of Androscoggin River" at the Maine Historical Society's Maine Memory Network https://www.mainememory.net/artifact/25774. He is best known as a publisher, characterized as "the father of journalism in Franklin County [Maine]."
Bates College in Lewiston, Maine holds his early papers as part of the Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library http://abacus.bates.edu/muskie-archives/EADFindingAids/MC010.html.
Married Martha Coney Flint in Sep 1834 at Bath, Maine.
The obituary for Reverend J.S. Swift in the 29 Mar 1883 issue of the Farmington Chronicle stated that his funeral services were to be held at Wilton, and the interment was to be in Riverside Cemetery.
Swift was a 19th Century Renaissance man. He was a Freewill Baptist minister, an orchardist and nurseryman, and an amateur artist. See, for instance, his "Sketch of Androscoggin River" at the Maine Historical Society's Maine Memory Network https://www.mainememory.net/artifact/25774. He is best known as a publisher, characterized as "the father of journalism in Franklin County [Maine]."
Bates College in Lewiston, Maine holds his early papers as part of the Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library http://abacus.bates.edu/muskie-archives/EADFindingAids/MC010.html.
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No marker has been found for Josiah or his wife, Martha, at Riverside Cemetery, and a 1960's era inventory of the cemetery did not record gravestones for either of them.
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