When John Peter Swearingen was born on 5 June 1884, in Adams, Ohio, United States, his father, David W. Swearingen, was 21 and his mother, Louella Copple, was 25. He married Oma Grace Barnard on 3 April 1911, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. He lived in Haynes Township, Kidder, North Dakota, United States in 1920 and Onarga Township, Iroquois, Illinois, United States in 1950. He died on 17 December 1960, in Onarga, Iroquois, Illinois, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Onarga Cemetery, Onarga, Iroquois, Illinois, United States.
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The Home Insurance Building is considered to be the first skyscraper in the world. It was supported both inside and outside by steel and metal that were deemed fireproof and also it was reinforced with concrete. It originally had ten stories but in 1891 two more were added.
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
Americanized form of Dutch Van Sweeringen: probably a habitational name for someone from one of two places in Germany named Schweringen, one in the Hanover region and the other near Bremen. Alternatively, an altered form of Swieringa . The surname (Van) Sweeringen is not found in the Netherlands. Compare Van Swearingen .
History: A 17th-century law-enforcement officer by the name of Gerrit van Sweeringen is recorded at New Amstel on the Delaware River.
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