LIBRARY 
OP THE 
DIVERSITY of ILLINO' 
THE 
AMERICAN GEOLOGIST. 
Vol. XXIV. JULY, 1899. No. 1 
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF GEORGE 
CLINTON SWALLOW. 
By G. C. Broadhead, Columbia, Mo. 
George C. Swallow was born at Beckfield. Oxford Co.. 
Maine, A. D. 1817. After more than a year of declining 
health, he died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Anna P. 
Woolfolk, in Evanston, 111., April 20, 1899, aged 82 years. He 
was descended from a Norman-French family who spelled 
their name Sevallieu. His ancestors came over to England 
with William the Norman. Prof. Swallow was married fo Miss 
Martha Ann Hill, March 17, 1844. She died at Evanston in 
the year 1898. They were both buried in the cemetery of Co- 
lumbia, Mo., in which town they had lived for many years. 
They left one daughter, Mrs. Anna P. Woolfolk, wife of Col. 
A. M. Woolfolk, formerly of Missouri, but for a number of 
years a resident of Montana, and at present residing at Evans- 
ton. 111. 
Prof. Swallow was a little over six feet high and weighed 
over two hundred pounds. He was a handsome man, with a 
large full eye. During his active life he was lively and fond 
of joking, and during his residence in Columbia he had many 
friends. He became a member of the Presbyterian church in 
early life and was, for a number of years, elder in the church in 
Columbia. He was also elder of a church in Montana. 
In receiving an education Swallow's chief aim was the 
study of natural history and natural science. He studied ge- 
ology, chemistry, botany and zoology with Prof. Parker Cleve- 
