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Josephine Bacon “Josie” <I>Latham</I> Swayne

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Josephine Bacon “Josie” Latham Swayne

Birth
Alexandria, Alexandria City, Virginia, USA
Death
26 May 1948 (aged 89)
Boulder, Boulder County, Colorado, USA
Burial
Boulder, Boulder County, Colorado, USA GPS-Latitude: 39.9941319, Longitude: -105.269328
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Josephine Bacon Latham b. July 29, 1858. On the 6th of October, 1887, was solemnized the marriage of Judge Swayne to Miss Josephine Latham, who was born at Alexandria, Virginia, and who is a daughter of Phillipson Latham.
Her mother 's memorial has two married names on her stone. On the 26th of December, 1854, he was married to Miss Ida Bacon, eldest daughter of Rev. Joel S. Bacon, D. D., at that time President of Columbian College.
A History of Central and Western Texas – Buckley B. Paddock
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Mrs. Swayne is a woman of high scholarship and distinctive culture, having marked literary ability and having made many contributions to leading periodicals. Her family has been one notable for scholarship and she herself has been an appreciative student of the best in literature and art. She was a student at Vassar and was afterwards a graduate of the University of Missouri, and also received the degree of Master of Arts from the University of Missouri, in which she was a successful and popular teacher for some time. She occupies a position of prominence in connection with the representative social activities of Fort Worth, where her popularity is of the most unequivocal order and where she has taken a deep interest in reform movements and civic improvements of various kinds. Her services in these lines have been of much value, though rendered with naught of ostentation. She is a member of the board of trustees of the Carnegie library of Fort Worth, and she has been the leading spirit in the affairs of the Civic Art League. Although her work has been done quietly and is little known to the public, she has exerted much influence in bringing about civic reforms and public improvements, in which connection special reference should be made to the effective work done by her in bringing about the improvement of the park system of Fort Worth and in providing public playgrounds for the children of the city. Mr. and Mrs. Swayne have one child, Ida L. (A History of Central and Western Texas, Vol 1, Captain B. B. Paddock, The Lewis Publishing Company, New York, 1911 -
Josephine Bacon Latham b. July 29, 1858. On the 6th of October, 1887, was solemnized the marriage of Judge Swayne to Miss Josephine Latham, who was born at Alexandria, Virginia, and who is a daughter of Phillipson Latham.
Her mother 's memorial has two married names on her stone. On the 26th of December, 1854, he was married to Miss Ida Bacon, eldest daughter of Rev. Joel S. Bacon, D. D., at that time President of Columbian College.
A History of Central and Western Texas – Buckley B. Paddock
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Mrs. Swayne is a woman of high scholarship and distinctive culture, having marked literary ability and having made many contributions to leading periodicals. Her family has been one notable for scholarship and she herself has been an appreciative student of the best in literature and art. She was a student at Vassar and was afterwards a graduate of the University of Missouri, and also received the degree of Master of Arts from the University of Missouri, in which she was a successful and popular teacher for some time. She occupies a position of prominence in connection with the representative social activities of Fort Worth, where her popularity is of the most unequivocal order and where she has taken a deep interest in reform movements and civic improvements of various kinds. Her services in these lines have been of much value, though rendered with naught of ostentation. She is a member of the board of trustees of the Carnegie library of Fort Worth, and she has been the leading spirit in the affairs of the Civic Art League. Although her work has been done quietly and is little known to the public, she has exerted much influence in bringing about civic reforms and public improvements, in which connection special reference should be made to the effective work done by her in bringing about the improvement of the park system of Fort Worth and in providing public playgrounds for the children of the city. Mr. and Mrs. Swayne have one child, Ida L. (A History of Central and Western Texas, Vol 1, Captain B. B. Paddock, The Lewis Publishing Company, New York, 1911 -


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