Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 6th ed., 1887,
Henry Co.

ENOS S. SWAIN, M.D., was born in 1836, near Charlestown, N. H., a son of
Dr. John Swain.  The Swains came originally from Denmark, and were a sea
faring people.  Our subject's grandfather, Edward Swain, was captain of a
vessel that was lost at Newburyport, Mass.  Dr. John Swain moved to
Kentucky about 1840, and located at New Castle, but after a year's
residence there moved to Ballardsville, Oldham County.  He is now about
seventy-nine years of age, and is a physician of more than forty years'
standing.  He married Mary E. Stevens, who was reared in Charlestown,
N. H., and was of the same family as the distinguished statesman, Thaddeus
Stevens.  She died in 1883.  Dr. Enos Swain was reared in Ballardsville,
and educated at Centre College, Danville, where he graduated.  After his
literary course he began reading medicine with his father, and a year
later, 1858, entered the Kentucky Medical School, from which he
graduated in 1860.  He then practiced for a year with Dr. S. W. Colman,
and in 1861 entered the Federal Army.  He served in the Fifth Kentucky
Infantry as assistant surgeon, and was afterward appointed surgeon of his
regiment.  After his return from the army in September, 1864, he attended
the Bellevue Medical Hospital, N. Y.  In the fall of 1865 he began
practice at Smithfield, and has since lived there.  Dr. Swain is a member
of the Presbyterian Church and of the Masonic fraternity.  He owns about
260 acres of land.  He married in November, 1868, Bittie Mitchell,
daughter of John G. and Elizabeth (Durrett) Mitchell, of Henry County.
Mrs. Swain's ancestors came to Kentucky from Virginia.  She is also a
member of the Presbyterian Church.  The names of the children to Dr. Enos
S. Swain are Henry E., Enos M., John, Paul and Mary E.  Politically Dr.
Swain is a Republican.

Swain Stevens Mitchell Colman Durrett
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Oldham-KY Danville-Boyle-KY MA NH VA NY Denmark

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