The sweep of family history across the generations
Widow Patty Smith Swett and six children by two husbands were among the first settlers who staked claims in Wapello County near Ottumwa in May 1843
Families from Connecticut settled northeastern Ohio in the early 1800s
Betty’s father was a prosperous merchant who came to Pomerania from East Prussia.
Joseph and Lena Rabinowitz were Russian immigrants who ran a corner grocery in Jewish Harlem. Their nine children were native Americans