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DR. WILLIAM H. SWANDER, physician and surgeon, was born in Tiffin, Seneca county, Ohio, May 2, 1835, where he spent the first years of his life. His father was a farmer by occupation, who died in the year 1879. The subject of this sketch was married at Dayton, Ohio, July 4, 1860, to Joanna Parsons, who was born near Dayton in October, 1844. Both Mr. and Mrs. Swander are members of the Presbyterian Church. Their two children are Thomas J. and Jennie M. Dr. Swander graduated from the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery in February, 1859. In August, 1862, he joined the Seventy-ninth Ohio as assistant surgeon, and after the close of the war served three years as pension surgeon. He was appointed prosecutor to the chair of surgery in Cincinnati College, He practiced some years at Lancaster, Ohio, Wheatland, Iowa, Larned, Kansas, Kansas City, and is now a regular practitioner of Carthage. He owns a fine residence on the corner of Seventh and Lyon, and has one of the finest homes in the city. Dr. Swander is a man of varied experiences, and has always been very successful in his profession.