John Hancock Swartz, a widely known inventor and a veteran of the civil war, died on Tuesday at his home, 229 Bergen Street, Brooklyn, in his eighty-fifth year. Mr. Swartz enlisted in the 47th Regiment, New York Volunteers, in the civil war and was later a Captain in the Hawkins Zouaves. He was a member of Perfect Ashlar Lodge, 604, F. and A. M., and one of the oldest members of the First Assembly District Republican Club.

Source: New York Times, Thursday, January 1, 1920

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