David Kew wrote: > Gustavus Franklin Swift was the founder of the Swift meat-processing > company in Chicago. > Two of their children wrote books about the family. Louis Franklin > Swift > (b. 1861 in West Sandwich, d. 1937 in Chicago) co-wrote, with Arthur Van > Vlissingen, "The Yankee of the Yards. The biography of Gustavus Franklin > Swift," 1927. Chicago & New York: AW Shaw). It's largely an homage to his > father and a description of the business. I've posted 2 chapters which > Cape Codders may be interested in, at > http://capecodhistory.us/books/GFSwift.htm. > A minor footnote: there's a section on Gustavus in Donald L. Miller's _City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America_(New York, Simon & Schuster, 1996). It may be of interest because it places him in context historically and in the society of the time.