Mathias Bryant Swain

Birth Date

c1827

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Louisville, Kentucky, tailor and merchant. New Jersey native. Married to Susan Rosette Townley Swain in Fleming County, Kentucky, on June 8, 1853. Father of Deborah A. Swain, Carrie B. Swain, and Kittie Swain. Tailor in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1850. Tailor in Louisville in 1858. Merchant tailor in Louisville in 1860. Tailor in Louisville in 1861. Sewing machine merchant in Henderson County, Kentucky, in 1863.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville District 3, p. 317B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 8, p. 759.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Daviess County, Owensboro Ward 2, p. 293B.
Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Henderson County, KY, July 1863, p. 21.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Fleming County Marriages, Film 000819597.
Louisville City Directory and Business Mirror for 1858-9, (Louisville: Hurd & Burrows, 1859), 171.
Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 241.

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