Started a lumber business on Front Street in 1853, which later became F. W. Wint and Company

Owen purchased a tract of land located at Front and Spring Streets from John Peter on October 9, 1850. During 1853, he leased the land to John Stoddard, of White Haven, who started a lumber yard. Mr. Stoddard then hired Owen Swartz to act as his agent to sell the lumber. Shortly before the Civil War John Stoddard sold the business to Owen Swartz and he operated the business until 1863 when he took as a partner Captain Horatio D. Yeager. The business then traded under the name of Swartz and Yeager. On March 26, 1866, Ferdinand W. Wint purchased a share of the business and the name of the firm was then changed to Swartz, Yeager and Wint. Owen Swartz sold his shares of the company to his partners on January 1, 1867 and he and his wife retired to Allentown, residing at No. 519 North Ninth Street.