Benjamin Lincoln Swan (1787-1866)

He came to New York City in 1810 and established himself in business with such success that he was able to retire in 1821. In 1846, it was said that his firm, Otis & Swan, "were peculiarly lucky in their commercial arrangements during the last war," which gave him an estimated $500,000 fortune. He was a director of the Bank of America and the Bank of Savings. He was Vice-President of the New York Bible Society and Governor of the New York Hospital and the Bloomingdale Asylum for the Insane. He married Mary Childs Saidler and had six children.