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Harry Carson Swab (1869-1942) – Helped Construct Panama Canal

HARRY C. SWAB PASSED AWAY TUESDAY

Harry Carson Swab, age 72 years, died at his home, South Market Street, town [Elizabethville], early Tuesday morning following a lingering illness.

Mr. Swab was a son of the late Isaac Swab and Sarah [Messner] Swab, and was a native of Elizabethville where he had resided most of his life.  He was a member of the Lutheran Church.

Mr. Swab was a steam shovel engineer more than twenty-five years, and from 1908 to 1913, was engaged in that capacity during construction of the Panama Canal.  He was employed as a steam shovel engineer during construction of the Pitcairn and Enola freight classification years of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and the Conowingo Electric Power Dam on the Susquehanna River in Maryland.

Survivors are his wife, who was formerly Miss Martha Smith, of Elizabethville; one daughter, Mrs. Mora Farrar, of Flint, Michigan; three grandchildren, and two brothers, Warren F. Swab and Percy A. Swab, both of Elizabethville.

Funeral services will be held from the Buffington Funeral Home, West Main Street, at 2:00 o’clock Friday afternoon.  Rev. W. Z. Artz, pastor of Salem Lutheran Church, town, will officiate and interment will be in Maple Grove Cemetery.

Friends may call at the Funeral Home this Thursday evening.

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From a local newspaper at the time of his death.

Corrections and additional information should be added as comments to this post.

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