to encourage the Germans to migrate to Pennsylvania.  In the 1700's more than 100,000 settled

in Pennsylvannia.  Later these Germans became known as the Pennsylvannia Dutch.  In this

number came the Schweitzners, later changed to Sweitzner.  The Sweitzeners moved to the

Northwest Territory. Later the state of Wisconsin was part of this territory.

John Henry Sweitzner homesteaded 160 acres in the State of Wisconsin.  He married a lovely

girl, Mary Kagle.  They had been married two months when Mary returned to her parent's home. 

The reason Mary return to her parent's home was that her husband marched off to the Civil War

with the 20th Wisconsin Division.  Their first child, John, was born, in the second year of this war's

devastating cruelty.