Life Span
to
Full name
Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm
Place of Birth
Pittsburgh, PA
Burial Place
Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, PA
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Female
Race
White
Sectional choice
North
Origins
Free State
No. of Spouses
1
Family
Thomas Cannon (father), Mary Scott Cannon (mother), James Swisshelm (husband - divorced 1857)
Occupation
Farmer or Planter
Journalist
Other
Other Occupation
Clerk
Relation to Slavery
White non-slaveholder
Other Affiliations
Abolitionists (Anti-Slavery Society)
Temperance (Prohibition)
Women’s Rights
Government
Lincoln Administration (1861-65)
Johnson Administration (1865-69)
Date Event
President Johnson dismisses his critic, Jane Grey Swisshelm, from her War Department job
Slavery
Dred Scott Case
Reconstruction
Date Title
"Mrs. Swisshelm Guillotined," Chicago Tribune, March 2, 1866
How to Cite This Page: "Swisshelm, Jane Grey Cannon," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/45301.