Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, ed. 8-B,
Wolfe County

Green Berry Swango was born in Wolfe County, Ky.  His parents were Stephen
and Caroline (Trimble) Swango, natives of Kentucky.  Green Berry Swango was
brought up on the farm, which occupation he has followed the greater part of
his life.  He was the third in a family of eleven children, and was educated
in the common schools.  In 1861 he enlisted in the Confederate army, Company
J, Fifth Kentucky Infantry, in which he served one year, and then entered
the Tenth Kentucky Cavalry, Company E, where he served until the close of
the war.  He then returned to Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky., where he has
since been engaged in mercantile pursuits; he also carries on farming, and
is one of the most substantial men of Wolfe County.  In 1877 he was elected
door-keeper in the House of Representatives at Frankfort, during that
session; in 1882 he was elected county judge of Wolfe County, and was
re-elected in 1886.  August 26, 1869, he married Eliza J. Young, a daughter
of Hugh Young, of Virginia.  She bore him three sons, viz: James H., Charles
S. and John Marion.  Judge Swango is a member of the Christian Church, and
also a member of the F. & A.M.  He votes with the Democrats.

Swango Trimble Young
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VA

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