Louis Franklin Swift (1861-1937)
Louis F. Swift, President of Swift & Company, Meat Packers, Chicago
In 1918, he came in at 23rd (tied with James B. Duke, Jacob Schiff, George Eastman, Pierre S. du Pont, Julius Rosenwald, Mrs. Lawrence Lewis and Henry Phipps) on the first ever Forbes Rich List with an estimated personal fortune of $50-million. He married Ida, daughter of Alden Brackett Butler, and they had six children (listed above).
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Contributed by Mark Meredith on 27/02/2023 and last updated on 28/02/2023.