Taylor Alison Swift was born on December 13, 1989 in Reading, Pennsylvania. Her father, Scott Kingsley Swift, is a Merrill Lynch financial adviser.Scott was raised in Pennsylvania and is the descendant of three generations of bank presidents. Her mother, Andrea , is a homemaker Andrea spent the first ten years of her life in Singapore, before settling in Texas; her father was an oil rig engineer who worked throughout Southeast Asia. Swift has a younger brother, Austin, who attends the University of Notre Dame.She and her brother were raised in the Presbyterian faith and attended bible school. She spent the early years of her life on an eleven-acre Christmas tree farm in Cumru Township, Pennsylvania.She attended preschool and kindergarten at the Alvernia Montessori School, run by Franciscan nuns, and was later educated at the Wyndcroft School, a co-ed private school. When Swift was nine years old, the family moved to a rented house in the suburban town of Wyomissing, Pennsylvania,[12] where she attended West Reading Elementary Center and Wyomissing Area Junior/Senior High School.[13] Swift summered at her parents' waterfront vacation home in Stone Harbor, New Jersey and has described it as the place "where most of my childhood memories were formed.