OBIT: John P. SWOPE, 1919, Huntingdon, Huntingdon County, PA

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JOHN P. SWOPE

  Trapper John P. Swope died in the Blair Memorial hospital on Wednesday 
afternoon from a stroke which he sustained on Monday afternoon at his home 
with his deceased sister's son, George Ballentyne, of Eighth and Washington 
street.  He was aged seventy-five years in January last.  Mr. Swope was a 
hunter and trapper from boyhood, and knew all the nooks in the nearby 
mountains where game lurked.  He made his living from this pursuit, which 
gives some notion of the extent of his success as a trapper for many years.  
He was a born naturalist, not an educated one, and beside knowing the 
animals, he was a lover of the flowers in the woods, bringing the most 
beautiful and rare samples both for student work and as a gift to friends.  
He was a bachelor and the last of a family whose homestead was near 
Alexandria.

Altoona Tribune, Friday, March 7, 1919, page 6