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  • Alice Crane Swingle (1880 - 1971)
    Alice Crane Haskins Swingle was an American government botanist. With her husband, botanist Deane Bret Swingle (1879–1944), she co-authored the 1928 book A Textbook of Systematic Botany.Haskins was bor...
  • Marion Boulton Stroud (1939 - 2015)
    Marion Boulton Stroud, also known as Marion Stroud Swingle (March 22, 1939 – August 22, 2015) was an American curator, author, and museum director who was particularly active in her support of contem...
  • Patience Swingle (1780 - d.)
    Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy : Aug 11 2017, 14:13:03 UTC
  • Walter Tennyson Swingle (1871 - 1952)
    Walter Tennyson Swingle (January 8, 1871 – January 19, 1952) was an American agricultural botanist who contributed greatly to the classification and taxonomy of citrus.
  • Ward Lamar Swingle (1927 - 2015)
    Ward Lamar Swingle (September 21, 1927 – January 19, 2015) was an American vocalist and jazz musician who founded The Swingle Singers in France in 1962.

About the Swingle surname

Swingle: an occupational name for a worker in the linen or hemp industry, from Middle English swingle, a wooden implement used for beating flax or hemp (Middle Dutch swinghel, from the verb 'to swing').

Swingle could possibly be an Anglicized spelling of the German or Swiss Zwingel, a topographic name from Middle High German zwingel meaning 'citadel.'

The name Swingle for branches in the United States is the Anglicized spelling of the German Schwingel.

Source: ancestry.com

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