Background
Swander, John I. was born on May 3, 1833 in Hope, Warren Company, New Jersey, United States. Son of Thomas and Sarah (Blair) Swander.
Swander, John I. was born on May 3, 1833 in Hope, Warren Company, New Jersey, United States. Son of Thomas and Sarah (Blair) Swander.
Heidelberg U., Tiffin, O. Graduate Heidelberg Theological Seminary, 1859. Honorary Master of Arts, Franklin and Marshall College, Pennsylvania, 1869.
Doctor of Philosophy, Bowden College, Georgia, 1889. Doctor of Divinity University of Florida, 1885.
Ordained Reformed Church ministry, 1859. Pastor First Church, Dayton, 1859-1860, Chillicothe, 1860-1865, Lancaster, 1866-1868, Northampton, 1868-1870, Latrobe, Pennsylvania, 1870-1881, Fremont, O., 1881-1892. Professor systematic theology, 1888-1892, practical theology, 1892-1895, Heidelberg U.
Associate professor systematic theology, Theological Seminary Reformed Church, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, since 1904.
Fellow Society of Art, Science and Literature, London, England., 1892 (gold medal for Text-Book on Sound).
Married Barbara Kimmel, of Dayton, Ohio, March 29, 1860.