Henry Cole Swift

Ontario County Times 7 December 1864

Another of our prominent citizens has gone to his rest. Henry C. Swift, Esq., who had been suffering for several months with cancerous affection of the stomach, died at his residence in this place on the 2d instant, at the age of fifty-one years. The deceased was a man of remarkably active habits, had served one term, from Jan. 1st, 1859, to Jan. 1st, 1862, as Sheriff of the county, and was a candidate for the same office at the recent election. He was buried yesterday with Masonic honors, and his remains were followed to the grave by a large concourse of citizens.

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