William Franklin Switzler

Colonel
William Franklin Switzler
Born (1819-03-16)March 16, 1819
Columbia, Missouri
Died May 24, 1906(1906-05-24) (aged 87)
Resting place Columbia Cemetery
Nationality American
Occupation journalist, publisher, historian
Notable work Swizler's Illustrated History of Missouri, History of Boone County, Missouri

William Franklin Switzler was an American journalist, publisher, and historian of the 19th century from Columbia, Missouri. He studied law under Abiel Leonard and James Sidney Rollins. In the 1840s he edited the Columbia Patriot eventually going into business for himself, printing the Columbia Statesman. In 1882 he published a History of Boone County, Missouri. In 1866 and 1888 he ran for congress, unsuccessfully, but was eventually appointed Chief of the Bureau of Statistics. Switzler Hall on the David R. Francis Quadrangle at the University of Missouri is named after him.[1]

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