Swayne, Norman Walton, 1885-1964

Quaker family of southern Chester County, Pa.

Caleb Swayne was a farmer and tanner, and his son, Benjamin, also operated a tanyard and conducted a school for boys, the London Grove Boarding School. Evan Thomas Swayne also taught at London Grove, but moved to the Eaton Institute, a boarding school for girls in Kennett, after 1865. His son, Edward Swayne, had a greenhouse business and and wrote poetry. Edward's sister, Anna Belle, was a photographer before her marriage to Albert Taylor Jackson. Edward's son, Norman Walton Swayne, attended Swarthmroe College and then taught at the George School; he was also the family genealogist.

From the description of Family Papers, 1733-1987. (Swarthmore College). WorldCat record id: 28349398