| LC control no. | no2001008493 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Swift, Gustavus Franklin, 1839-1903 |
| Variant(s) | Swift, Gustavus, 1839-1903 Swift, Gustavus F., 1839-1903 |
| See also | Founded corporate body of person: Swift & Company (Chicago, Ill.) |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1839-06-24 |
| Death date | 1903-03-29 |
| Place of birth | Sagamore (Mass.) |
| Place of death | Chicago (Ill.) |
| Field of activity | Meat industry and trade Food--Transportation Refrigerator cars Animal products |
| Profession or occupation | Businessmen |
| Found in | The entrepreneurs, an American adventure. Part 2, The land and its people [VR] 1991, c1986: container (Gustavus Swift, developer of meat refrigeration) OCLC, Jan. 3, 2001 (hdg.: Swift, Gustavus Franklin, 1839-1903 ; usage: Swift, Gustavus Franklin) Funk & Wagnalls WWW Home page, Jan. 3, 2001: encyclopedia article, South San Francisco (community founded 1891 as a planned industrial center on a site chosen by the merchant Gustavus Swift (1839-1903) for a meatpacking plant) Northwestern University website, Annie May Swift wins city's outstanding restoration award, June 2, 2009, viewed April 14, 2021 (Annie May Swift Hall, built in 1895, restored as of 2009; named in memory of the daughter of meatpacking industry tycoon Gustavus F. Swift, who died of typhoid fever while a student at Northwestern) Britannica online, viewed April 14, 2021 (Gustavus Swift; American businessman; in full Gustavus Franklin Swift; born June 24, 1839, West Sandwich (now Sagamore), Massachusetts, U.S.; died March 29, 1903, Chicago, Illinois; founder of the meatpacking firm Swift & Company and promoter of the railway refrigerator car for shipping meat; a butcher's helper at age 14; became a buyer and slaughterer of cattle in 1859, opened butcher shop in Eastham, Massachusetts; became partner, as cattle buyer, of James A. Hathaway, a Boston meat dealer, in 1872, in 1875 he transferred his headquarters to Chicago; hired an engineer to design a refrigerator car; in 1877 he shipped the first refrigerator carload of fresh meat to the East; soon afterward he left Hathaway, formed partnership with his brother, and in 1885 incorporated the firm Swift & Company, with himself as first president; in 1902, with J.O. Armour and Edward Morris, he formed the National Packing Company, the "Beef Trust", subsequently dissolved by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1905; Swift was also a leader in turning formerly unused parts of animals into by-products such as soap, glue, fertilizer, and oleomargarine) |
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