Book Description

The genealogy of Lawrence Townsend Slaght (1912-1983), who was born in Plainfield, Bremer Co., Iowa, a son of Elna Townsend and Ralph Slaght. The Townsends came originally from England. Their ancestral home is Raynham Hall, Oyster Bay, N.Y. The emigrant ancestor of the Slaght family in America was Cornelius Barentse Slecht. He came from Woerdon, Holland with his wife and at least four children abt. 1652. He settled at Esopus (now Kingston), N.Y. The genealogy of Irene Johanna Swanson (b. 1906), who was born in Anaconda, Montana, a daughter of Otto Swanson from Närpiö (Närpes) Vaasa Co., Finland and Johanna Sundquist from Ylimarkku (Övermark), Vaasa Co., Finland. Otto Wilhelm Mattson Swanson (1873-1928) left Finland in 1893 and settled in Montana, where he met and married Johanna Sundquist in 1897.