BENJAMIN F. SWISHER.

BENJAMIN F. SWISHER.
An active factor in the business circles of Cheyenne is Benjamin F. Swisher, a jeweler and optician, who along his chosen line has developed a large trade that not only contributes to his personal prosperity but also constitutes an element in the commercial development of the community. Mr. Swisher is a native son of Kansas. He was born in 188r of the marriage of William H. and Amanda J. (Brown) Swisher. The father was a farmer by occupation and also dealt in Produce. He still remains an active factor in the world’s work and he and his wife yet make their home in Kansas. Benjamin F. Swisher is indebted to the public school system of his native state for the early educational opportunities which were accorded him. he passed through consecutive grades to his graduation from the high school and afterward had the benefit of two years’ instruction in college. In young manhood he turned his attention to the jewelry business, learning the trade in a practical way, and in 1909 he arrived in Wyoming. For five years he was employed in a jewelry store in Cheyenne and on the expiration of that period purchased his present business, having in the meantime carefully saved his earnings until his economy and industry had brought him sufficient capital to make the investment. Since that time he has greatly enlarged his stock and now has one of the well appointed jewelry establishments of the city. He has also done excellent. work along optical lines and is a graduate of the Southwestern Optical College, in which he completed his course in 1903. His optical business is a large feature of his trade and extends to every city in the state. He employs three men to assist him in his work and he is registered as an optician in two states. He is also acting as a member of the state board of examiners in optometry and is president of the State Optical Association. He has closely studied the science which underlies his work in this connection and his efforts are the expression of the last word in optical work. In politics Mr. Swisher maintains an independent course, as he also does upon the question of religion, although he is a Protestant. In Masonic circles he has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite and in his life he exemplifies the beneficent spirit of the craft, which is based upon a recognition of the brotherhood of mankind and the obligations thereby imposed. He has made an excellent record in his business career, steadily working his way upward by reason of his efficiency in optometry and by reason of his thorough reliability in that as in the jewelry trade. His patronage is now extensive and his success is well merited.

An active factor in the business circles of Cheyenne is Benjamin F. Swisher, a jeweler and optician, who along his chosen line has developed a large trade that not only contributes to his personal prosperity but also constitutes an element in the commercial development of the community. Mr. Swisher is a native son of Kansas. He was born in 188r of the marriage of William H. and Amanda J. (Brown) Swisher. The father was a farmer by occupation and also dealt in Produce. He still remains an active factor in the world’s work and he and his wife yet make their home in Kansas.
Benjamin F. Swisher is indebted to the public school system of his native state for the early educational opportunities which were accorded him. he passed through consecutive grades to his graduation from the high school and afterward had the benefit of two years’ instruction in college. In young manhood he turned his attention to the jewelry business, learning the trade in a practical way, and in 1909 he arrived in Wyoming. For five years he was employed in a jewelry store in Cheyenne and on the expiration of that period purchased his present business, having in the meantime carefully saved his earnings until his economy and industry had brought him sufficient capital to make the investment. Since that time he has greatly enlarged his stock and now has one of the well appointed jewelry establishments of the city. He has also done excellent. work along optical lines and is a graduate of the Southwestern Optical College, in which he completed his course in 1903. His optical business is a large feature of his trade and extends to every city in the state. He employs three men to assist him in his work and he is registered as an optician in two states. He is also acting as a member of the state board of examiners in optometry and is president of the State Optical Association. He has closely studied the science which underlies his work in this connection and his efforts are the expression of the last word in optical work.
In politics Mr. Swisher maintains an independent course, as he also does upon the question of religion, although he is a Protestant. In Masonic circles he has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite and in his life he exemplifies the beneficent spirit of the craft, which is based upon a recognition of the brotherhood of mankind and the obligations thereby imposed. He has made an excellent record in his business career, steadily working his way upward by reason of his efficiency in optometry and by reason of his thorough reliability in that as in the jewelry trade. His patronage is now extensive and his success is well merited.