Résumé

Private, US Army, 35th Volunteer Infantry, Company H, 08/14/1899-c. 1900. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation National Archives at Washington DC; Washington DC, USA; Applications for Headstones For U.S. Military Veterans, 1925-1941; NAID: 596118; Record Group Number: 92; Record Group Title: Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General, accessed 04/23/2026.)

Principal, Frances A. Swingle, Architect, Pendleton, OR, 1906. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Oregon State Archives; Salem, OR, USA; Oregon, U.S., State Births, 1842-1924, accessed 04/23/2026.)

Principal, Frances A. Swingle, White Bluffs, WA, c. 1910.

Principal, Francis A. Swingle, Architect, Kennewick, WA, c. 1920.

Construction Engineer, Lewiston, ID, -1930. His State of Washington death certificate indicated that Swingle last worked as an architect in 1930. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Washington State Archives; Olympia, Washington; Washington Death Index, 1940-2017, accessed 04/23/2026.)

Relocation

Born in South Canaan, PA, he lived on a farm here with his parents and three siblings in 1880. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1880; Census Place: South Canaan, Wayne, Pennsylvania; Roll: 1203; Page: 339d; Enumeration District: 022, accessed 04/23/2026.) South Canaan was a town about 22 miles northeast of Scranton, PA, in Wayne County. The architect was a descendant of Johann Hans Ulrich Swingle (born 05/15/1732 in Hulben, Baden-Württemberg, Germany-d. 03/28/1809 in South Canaan, PA), an early German-American settler and farmer in the South Canaan area, who came to the US by at least 1759. He purchased 400 acres of land in South Canaan in 1783, and had ten children with his wife Mary Polly Shaffer (born 1731 in Kassel, Germany-d. 03/01/1811 in South Canaan, PA) . (See "Enoch Swingle," Commemorative Biographical Record of Northeastern Pennsylvania, [Chicago: J.H. Beers and Company, 1900], p. 862.)

Swingle and his wife Mabel likely resided in San Francisco, CA, in 1903, where their first child Margaret was born.

In 1906, Francis and Mabel resided at 110 Stonewall Jackson Street in Pendleton, OR, according to their daughter Frances's birth certificate. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Oregon State Archives; Salem, OR, USA; Oregon, U.S., State Births, 1842-1924, accessed 04/23/2026.)

In 1910, the US Census found the Swingle Family living in White Bluffs, WA, in Benton County. This town (now located near Area 100H) was dispersed beginning in 03/1943 to make room for the Hanford Nuclear Reservation and its plutonium processing laboratory.

The Swingles lived on 7th Street in Kennewick, WA, in 1920. They owned their own house with no mortgage at that time. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1920; Census Place: Kennewick, Benton, Washington; Roll: T625_1920; Page: 12A; Enumeration District: 27, accessed 04/23/2026.)

On 04/03/1930, Francis and Mabel rented a dwelling at 727 8th Avenue in Lewiston, ID. As indicated by this US Census, Francis worked as a construction engineer at that time. He, however, would retire from work as his tuberculosis condition deteriorated that year.

Swingle passed away from tuberculosis in a Veteran's Administration Hospital at 316 Main Street in Lewiston, ID. He had been in this facility for about ten months before his death on 09/22/1933. He was 62. almost 63, years old. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Washington State Archives; Olympia, Washington; Washington Death Index, 1940-2017, accessed 04/23/2026.)

Parents

The architect's father was Edgar Davis Swingle (born in PA), his mother Almyra Osborne (born in PA)

Spouse

As per the 1910 US Census, Francis Swingle married twice.

He wed his second wife Mabel Ena Kyle (born 01/25/1880 in Wilber, Saline County, NE-d. 09/17/1959 in San Diego County, CA) in about 1903. Both of Mabel's parents Archibald Kyle (born 01/11/1847 in Winchester, ON, Canada-d. 10/27/1911 in Albany, OR) and Margaret Martin (born 1852 in Canada-d. 04/25/1918 in Albany, OR) had been born in Canada.

Children

With Mabel, Francis had two daughters, Margaret Alberta Swingle Whillock (born 08/03/1903 in San Francisco, CA-d. 03/01/1938 in Boise, ID) and Francis Ena Swingle McLean (born 07/12/1906 in Pendleton, OR-d. 06/03/1988 in San Diego County, CA)