HON. C. W. SWISHER, a prom-
inent young business man of Fairmont,
Marion County, West Virginia, who is



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MEN OF WEST VIRGINIA



identified with much of tlie material
development of that section, was born
in Alarion County, West Virginia,
May 26, 1867. He is a son of Alpheus
and Abigail (Van Gilden) Swisher,
^vho were of German extraction. Al-
pheus Swisher was a prominent lumber
man for many years, and was well
known through Marion County, where
he died in October, 1901. The mother,
a member of an old and honorable Vir-
o^inia family, still survives.
