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    Gustavus Franklin Swift, Sr. (June 24, 1839 – March 29, 1903) was an American business executive. He founded a meat-packing empire in the Midwest during...
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    JBS USA (redirect from Swift and Company)
    Company operations can be traced back to 1855, when 16-year-old Gustavus Franklin Swift founded a butchering operation in Eastham, Massachusetts. Its early...
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    of Morris & Company, while Helen was the daughter of Gustavus Franklin Swift, the founder of Swift & Company. The Richardsonian Romanesque home was most...
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  • of the 2000s George R. Swift (1887–1972), U.S. politician Graham Swift (born 1949), British novelist Gustavus Franklin Swift (1839–1903), U.S. entrepreneur...
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  • Helen Swift Neilson (1869 – 18 June 1945) was an American writer and art collector. Neilson was the daughter of Annie Maria (née Higgins) and Gustavus Franklin...
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    packing firms. A city plan was put forward in 1888 by Gustavus Franklin Swift, founder of the Swift & Company meat packing firm. The plan called for multiple...
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    America's first truly global companies led by entrepreneurs such as Gustavus Franklin Swift and Philip Danforth Armour. Philip Armour was the first person...
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    opened stockyards. Perhaps the most energetic entrepreneur was Gustavus Franklin Swift, the Yankee who operated out of Boston and moved to Chicago in...
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    of pepper pastes. List of food companies Philip Danforth Armour Gustavus Franklin Swift Hormel Historic Home Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the meat...
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  • Company meat-packing business, and Helen (née Swift) Morris, a member of the family which owned Swift & Company, another meat-packing firm (her parents...
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