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Distinguished Citizen 1984

The 3rd home of People's Home & Auto in the old Swank Hardware Building. Irv Kolker is on the right with a customer. This is what the building looked like after a new rooftop was built after a fire in the 1940s. (NOTE) located where the pocket park is in front of Beans in the Belfry).

According to the Brunswick Citizen when People's Home Furnishers closed in the Spring of 1990, "the People's business grew from a tiny hardware store into a furniture and major appliance store. In 1945, Nat Winters and Irv Kolker bought the hardware store owned by Harry Feldman, which was located in the Hovermale Building across from the old fire hall on West Potomac Street. A year later, the business moved into an East Potomac Street property owned by the Kaplon family.

When the Swank Hardware Store was put up for sale by the Swank family, the partners bought it and moved their stock to this much larger space, also offering major appliances, bicycles, hardware, pots & pans, and auto parts.

(Photo from the Myer Kaplon photo collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries; information from The Brunswick Citizen)

Distinguished Citizen 1984

Emery Coblentz Swank (1922 – 2010), Distinguished Citizen 1984 Spouse: Margaret (Whiting) Swank

Brunswick: 100 Years of Memories (1990) Swank, Emory Coblentz (1922- ) Honored 1984 mory Coblentz Swank was the only former Brunswickian to become a United States Ambassador. He graduated from Franklin & Marshall College magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He also received a metal for leadership, scholarship and character. He holds a masters degree from Harvard and attended Syracuse School of Foreign Languages. Once in the Consular Service, he filled the of fices of Vice-Consul, Consul General, Political Officer, Research Officer, Special Assistant to Secretary of State, and Charge’ d’Affaires. Finally from 1970 to 1973 he served as Ambassador to the Khmer Republic (Cambodia). Upon retiring, the Department of State awarded him the Superior Honor Award, and F&M College bestowed on him the Alumni Citation Award. He has written extensively on international affairs. In 1977 he became Chief Executive Officer and lecturer for the Cleveland Council on World Affairs, which awarded him the Drew Pearson award.

Find A Grave: Birth 29 Jan 1922 Death 3 Jun 2010 (aged 88) Burial Christ Reformed Cemetery