Henry Swartz was born in Pennsylvania and emigrated with his father, John L. Swartz, to Highland County, Ohio; thence they moved to the Scioto River, in Delaware County.  Henry Swartz there married Ann Stevens, purchased a forest farm from Cyprian Lee just north of the Sidle Methodist Protestant Church, and built his cabin northeast of Fulton Creek.  The cabins of his three neighbors-Lee, Williams and Cotrell-were south of the creek.  Mr. Swartz moved over to his new home about 1823 or 1824.  He is described as being a tall, well-formed man, very strong, aggressive, not the least cowardly, and, withal, a kind, clever man.  He had been a soldier in the war of 1812, and understood the Indian character very well and had no love for it.  He was a great hunter, killing from sixty to eighty deer in a season and cutting as many as seventy bee trees in a single fall, besides taking a considerable amount of other game.  He sold the farm he first purchased in this township and bought another just north of Richwood, where he lived a few years.  He was also in business for a short time in Richwood, but at last removed to Defiance County, where he died at a ripe old age.