Newspaper Man Dead. Isaac Newton Swope, a well-known citizen of Huntingdon County, who founded the Mapleton Item twenty-nine years ago and conducted the same until a few weeks ago, when he sold the paper to Editor Riddle, of the Semi-Weekly-News Huntingdon, died at his home in Huntingdon on Thursday of last week, aged about 58 years. He was a graduate of Dickinson Seminary, editor of the Mount Union Times four years, principal of the Mapleton schools for five years and six years prothonotary of Huntingdon County.—The Fulton County News, April 4, 1918 Page 1 Column 2. [American Historysmith]
Newspaper Man Dead. Isaac Newton Swope, a well-known citizen of Huntingdon County, who founded the Mapleton Item twenty-nine years ago and conducted the same until a few weeks ago, when he sold the paper to Editor Riddle, of the Semi-Weekly-News Huntingdon, died at his home in Huntingdon on Thursday of last week, aged about 58 years. He was a graduate of Dickinson Seminary, editor of the Mount Union Times four years, principal of the Mapleton schools for five years and six years prothonotary of Huntingdon County.—The Fulton County News, April 4, 1918 Page 1 Column 2. [American Historysmith]
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