The death is announced from Lynn, Massachusetts
of Mr. James A. Swanston, who had long been a resident
of that town. Mr. Swanston, who was a man of over
seventy, was employed in his early days in the
Ulster Railway, now known as the Great Northern.
He emigrated close on sixty years ago, and had a
prosperous career in the States, and at the time of
his death he occupied a high position in the shipping
department of the General Electric Company. The end
came very very suddenly, and was altogether
unexpected. Mrs Swanston and her sister in law were
visiting Baltimore at the time, and on receipt of the
sad intelligence hurried back to Lynn. The deceased
gentleman was a man of the most amiable disposition
and was highly esteemed in Lynn, where his death
caused much sorrow. He was a brother of Mr. Wm.
[William?] Swanston, a respected Belfast citizen,
who still carries on business in the city.
