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Edward Emerson Swallow.
Born July 20, 1852, in Wilmington, Mass., the son of Rev. Joseph Emerson Swallow, Dartmouth '43, and Maria Elizabeth (Gibson) Swallow. He entered college from the Norwich Free Academy, maintained a high rank throughout his course, and graduated with oration honors, among the first fourteen of the Class. He was married October 15, 1881, to Miss Mary Louise Sewall, of Waltham. On graduation Swallow began a course of study in the Yale Divinity School, but was induced three months later to take charge of the High School in Pottsville, Pa. He continued to teach in Pottsville until 1878, and was then similarly employed for a few months in Garden City, L.I. He then began medical studies at the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, where he graduated in 1880. In January, 1881, he began the practice of medicine in Waltham, Mass. He afterward spent three years, 1884 to 1887, in study in Vienna and Paris, and on his return went to Wilmington, N.C, with the idea of settling there permanently. His health, which had been delicate, failed so rapidly that he died December 31, 1887, in Wilmington, N.C, in his thirty-sixth year. Biographical Record of the Class of 1874 in Yale College: Part Fourth, 1874-1909.