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SWIM, WILLIAM (1824-1910)

SWIM, WILLIAM, lumberman and MLA; b. Doaktown, 24 Jun 1824, s/o Henry Swim Sr and Agnes (Doak) Dawson; brother of Robert Swim; m. 1849, Caroline Amos; d. Doaktown, 19 Dec 1910.

William Swim, a Doaktown lumberman, was elected to a seat in the House of Assembly in 1874 as a supporter of non-sectarian schools. Such schools had been mandated by the Common Schools Act of 1871 but were being strenuously resisted by the Catholic population of the province, in particular. He retained his seat until 1878, when he was defeated in a bid for re-election.

In 1877 Swim was serving as vice-president of the New Brunswick Baptist home mission board. In 1893 he was foremost among those whose "liberality and personal efforts" led to the construction of a new Baptist church at Doaktown. The church was dedicated on 2 July 1893 to take the place of one destroyed by fire, but when the congregation defaulted on the mortgage which he held on it, he sold the church at auction in Fredericton. He owned a tenement house in Doaktown in 1900. He was survived in 1910 by his wife, Caroline Amos, five daughters, and two sons, one of whom was Francis D. Swim of Doaktown.

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[b] Graves [m] Generations 50, p.57 [d] Advocate 27 Dec 1910 / Advance 6 Jul 1893, 21 Jun 1894, 8 Feb 1900; Can. Parl. Comp., 1877


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