S. N. Schwartz
S. N. Swartz, attorney at law, Millersburgh, was born in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland, in 1851, son of Nicholas and Barbara (Kuntz) Schwartz. In 1852 Nicholas Schwartz, with his wife and eight children, came to America and at once settled near Berlin, in Holmes County, Ohio, where he bought 100 acres of land, on which he still resides, a highly respected citizen, now in the eightieth year of his age.
S. N. Schwartz was reared in Holmes County, on his father's farm, and in his youth attended the common schools, and later the high school at Millersburgh. For five years he taught school, and in 1874 began the study of law under the instruction of Judge Crowell, of Cleveland, Ohio; then attended the Union Law School, of Cleveland, and was admitted to the bar April 28, 1877, in the city of Cleveland. In 1878 he located in Millersburgh, where he has since lived. In 1884 he was elected to the office of prosecuting attorney of Holmes County, a position he filled so creditably that in 1887 he was re-elected to the same position. He is a young man of good ability as a lawyer, and is destined to stand at the head of his profession. Mr. Schwartz was married December 3, 1876, to Sarah Drushel, youngest daughter of Eli Drushel, a highly respected citizen and farmer of Berlin Township, Holmes Co., Ohio, and they have one daughter, Huldah. Mr. and Mrs. Schwartz are members of the Lutheran Church; in politics he is a Democrat, and a stanch supporter of the principles of that party. He is the owner of the Park Building on the southwest corner of the public square in Millersburgh.
Mr. Schwartz's father was married twice, his first wife being Elizabeth Kuntz, a sister of his second wife. Of his large family of children we give a brief mention, as follows: John, the eldest, is a farmer of Tuscarawas County, Ohio; Jacob was stricken with blindness when eight months old (was left in Switzerland at an institution for the blind, when his parents came to America; is now highly educated and a fine musician, and resides with his parents); C. H., is physician and surgeon of Winesburg, and is a veteran soldier of Company C, Sixty-seventh Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Veteran Infantry (was taken prisoner while sick at Strasburg, Va.; was discharged June 7, 1862; re-enlisted September 22, 1862, in same company and regiment; was wounded July 18, 1863, in the assault on Fort Wagner, S. C.; was wounded April 2, 1865, at the fall of Petersburg, Va.; was mustered out June 16, 1865, at Fortress Monroe, Va., by order of war department); Elizabeth (now Mrs. Yeagerlauer) lives in Clay County, Ind.; Barbara is at home with her parents; N. F. is a physician in Shanesville, Ohio; Godfrey is a farmer of Holmes County; Charles is an engineer, and resides in Millersburgh; Henry is a physician in Somerdale, Ohio; Sevilla (now Mrs. Engel) resides near Berlin, Holmes County; Sophia (now Mrs. Ewing) is in Kansas; William B. is an attorney in Brazil City, Ind., and Henrietta is the wife of A. F. Beachey, in Kansas.
From Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Wayne and Holmes, Ohio, J. H. Beers & Co., Chicago, 1889