Plat showing connection between D & E surveys : or south line of S.M. Swenson & sons pasture & Euders / Martin Duvall, surveyor. 1880.
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Duvall, Martin.
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Swante (Svante, Sven, Swen) Magnus Swenson (Svenson) (1816-1896) was the first Swedish immigrant to Texas and the founder of the SMS Ranches of West Texas. He came to America in 1836, where he worked as a store clerk in New York and a railroad bookkeeper in Baltimore, Maryland, before settling in Texas in 1838. Swenson worked for John Adriance, who operated a large-scale carriage delivery service of general merchandise. In 1847 Swenson began a crusade to bring more Swedi...