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William Franklin Switzler was born on March 16, 1819 on a farm in Fayette County, Kentucky. He was the first of two sons of Simeon and Elizabeth (Cornelius) Switzler. His father was a native of Virginia, his mother of Kentucky, and his paternal grandparents of Switzerland.
When his family moved to Fayette, Missouri, in 1826, William began his schooling in a log house. Later his father bought a farm near Franklin, Missouri, on which the boy grew up. He supplemented his training at Mount Forest Academy by omnivorous reading, including law, which he practiced three years.
In 1841 Wiliam Switzler became an editor of the oldest Missouri newspaper outside of St. Louis, the Columbia Patriot, then a Whig weekly (founded at Franklin in 1819 as the Missouri Intelligencer); this he purchased in December 1842 and renamed the Missouri Statesman.
He served three terms in the Missouri legislature, being elected in 1846, 1848, and 1856, and supported progressive and antislavery measures. During the Civil War he was so strong a Unionist that a guerrilla band threatened his life. Although he served as delegate to the National Constitutional Union Convention (Democratic) in Baltimore in 1860, Lincoln appointed him secretary of state in the provisional government in Arkansas two years later.
Democratic candidate for national representative in 1866 and 1868, he each time unsuccessfully contested the election of his opponent.
He was also a delegate to the state constitutional convention of 1875 and drafted the section on education. He edited the Statesman until 1885, when President Cleveland appointed him chief of the bureau of statistics in the Treasury Department. For short periods he also edited newspapers in St. Joseph and Chillicothe, Missouri, and from 1893 to 1898, the Missouri Democrat at Boonville.
His last years he spent writing a history of the University of Missouri. A founder of the first circulating library in Columbia, head of the lyceum there in the 1840s, and sponsor of its first brass band, he was in his last decade still working for local improvements.
In his latter years he enjoyed the editorial rivalry of Edwin William Stephens.
Survived by two sons and a daughter, Switzler died of the infirmities of age in his eighty-seventh year in Columbia.
William F. Switzler's main achievement was in leading a movement in 1849 opening the way for the founding of Christian College (1851), of which he was a trustee for many years, and the Baptist (later Stephens) College (1856). He left his mark as the dean of Missouri journalists, and three years after his death the first building of the School of Journalism of the University of Missouri was named in his honor. Switzler was one of the best informed men of his time on the history of his state. His publications include the Early History of Missouri (1872), the section on history in C. R. Barns's The Commonwealth of Missouri (1877), Switzler's Illustrated History of Missouri (1879), History of Boone County, Missouri (1882), and History of Statistics and Their Value (1888). He also contributed to H. L. Conard's Encyclopedia of the History of Missouri (1906). His other achievements were founding of the first circulating library in Columbia, heading of the lyceum there in the 1840s, and sponsoring of its first brass band.
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William F. Switzler was a Presbyterian and a vigorous temperance leader.
An ardent Whig editorially, Switzler nevertheless saw that Democratic news was faithfully reported. He contended that Democratic voters had been disfranchised by the Missouri constitution of 1865, which he was chosen to help frame and whose adoption he vigorously opposed.
William F. Switzler was a good public speaker, and his bearded face was a familiar sight at fairs, dedications of covered bridges, and Fourth of July celebrations.
So well known were his remarkable memory and his insistence on accuracy that citation of the Statesman was freely accepted as proof. But the appointment did not alter his politics, and in 1864 he supported George Brinton McClellan.
His wife, Mary Jane Royall, of Columbia, whom William F. Switzler married August 31, 1843, died in 1879.
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