Prof. A. J. Swing

Alfred J. Swing, artist, residence 419 Eighth avenue, was born in Cincinnati, 1828, and has lived in Dayton fifteen years.  He is a graduate of Miami University, and was war correspondent of the Cincinnati Times during the civil war.  A man of varied information and large sympathies, he is identified with the best interest of the community.  Dayton is fortunate in the quality of her professional people.  She has preachers who stand well up toward the front, physicians whose rank is recognized abroad, artists who are hardly behind the foremost, and musicians whose services are in demand in other and larger cities.  In the way of special talent in many lines, Dayton is peculiarly fortunate.

The GAR (a short history of the organization is at this site) held it's annual encampment in Dayton in September,1898.  All of the Dayton images and texts dated 1898 are from the souvenir booklet prepared for the occasion.