1855-1925
John Morgan Swain was born in Georgia, but spent the vast majority of his life in Florida. I can tell this picture was more than likely taken in Florida as there are palm trees in the background.
Interesting tidbit about him and his wife, Sarah Ellen Anderson Swain. They had 10 children, and they named 7 of them after U.S. states:
Indiana (1876-1943)
Idaho (1878-1951)
California (1880-1951)
Dakota (1882-1946)
Minnesota (1884-1965)
Connecticut (1887-1889)
Arizona (1889-1891)
The story is that after Connecticut and Arizona died so young, John Morgan and Sarah Ellen were afraid they had jinxed themselves by naming all their girls after states. So their next child was born in 1892 and they gave her and the youngest two "traditional" names. They all three lived to adulthood. (And yes, they finally had a boy!)
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