Josiah Otis Swift1

M, #46051, b. 1 March 1871, d. 14 May 1948

Family: Daisy Isabelle Peabody

Biography

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BirthMar 1, 1871Farmington, ME, USA1
MarriageJun 14, 1893Lewiston, ME, USA1
DeathMay 14, 1948Hastings-on-Hudson, NY, USA1
Biography"Josiah Otis Swift was born in Farmington Falls, Maine, in "a little brick farmhouse on the Falls Road about a mile north of the Falls" (quoting his autobiographical sketch in the Notebooks cited below). With his parents he moved to Wilton, Maine in 1882, to Paris, Maine briefly in 1884, and by the end of 1885 he had moved to Lewiston, Maine. There he went to work as a reporter for the Lewiston Journal, becoming City Editor by 1898. He and Daisy Isabelle Peabody
were married in 1893 at the house of her parents, 9 Riverside Place, Lewiston. They moved to New York City in 1899 where he had taken a job on the New York World as a reporter. As J. Otis Swift he became Nature Editor for the New York World (and its successor newspapers until his death in 1948), writing a daily column "News Outside the Door" and leading a large walking club, the Yosians, with thousands of members in metropolitan New York. He lived in the Bronx, New York, from 1899 to 1910, moving then to 81 Summit Drive, Hastings-on Hudson, New York. About 1928 he and Daisy built a summer cottage at Bay Point, Georgetown, Maine, where Daisy spent her summers until about 1940, joined there briefly each summer by J. Otis during his vacations from the newspaper.

Sources: Notebooks of Josiah Otis Swift [in possession of Katharine Swift Gravino, 1988]
Swift Family Records [in possession of John Longworth Swift]"
ParentsSElkanah Sprague Swift and Emma Louise Butler1
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  1. [S415] E-mail from Jack Swift, Jan. 16, 2000.

Otis Peabody Swift1

M, #46052, b. 30 May 1896, d. 27 June 1971

Family 1: Ethel Constance Longworth

Family 2: Marguerite Hoare Valler

Biography

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BirthMay 30, 1896Lewiston, ME, USA1
MarriageJul 31, 1921Paris, France1
Divorcecirca 19401
Marriagecirca 1941Princeton, Mercer Co., NJ, USA1
DeathJun 27, 1971Georgetown, ME, USA1
BiographySwift: "Otis Peabody Swift was born at No. 5 Cottage Street, Lewiston, Maine. He moved with his parents to New York City about 1899, living in the Bronx until 1910 when the family moved to 81 Summit Drive, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. He attended Columbia School of Journalism in New York City, served in the U.S. Navy in World War I (discharged with the rank of Ensign), was a newspaper correspondent in Europe circa 1920-1923 (initially with the New York Tribune in London in November, 1920), a newspaper reporter with the Chicago Tribune and United Press in Chicago and New York in the 1920's, later a free-lance writer and publicist. He worked with Time Inc., United Nations Relief & Rehabilition Agency (UNRRA), United China Relief, Radio Free Europe and other clients. He met and married Ethel Constance Longworth (Ted), a correspondent for the Montreal Star, in Europe. Their son John (Jack) was born in London. Their daughter Barbara (Kate) was born after they had recrossed the Atlantic to Hastings-on-Hudson, New York in 1923. They lived over the next 15 years in New York City, Evanston, Illinois, Hastings again, Lake Placid, N.Y., Washington, D.C., and Madison, Connecticut, inter alia. They were divorced about 1940. He married again about 1941, his second wife being Marguerite Hoare, with whom he had a daughter, Marguerite Milne Swift, born in 1943. He and his wife Marguerite (Tom) lived in East Lyme, Connecticut; Dobbs Ferry, New York; and Washington, D.C. --and for a period in Munich, Germany in the 1950's -- before moving to Plainsboro, New Jersey around 1960, and later to Ponte Vedra, Florida (winters) and Bay Point, Georgetown, Maine (summers).1 "
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  1. [S415] E-mail from Jack Swift, Jan. 16, 2000.

Norman Guernsey Swift1

M, #46053, b. 8 November 1905, d. 21 January 1997

Family: Ruth Mary Palmer

Biography

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BirthNov 8, 1905New York, New York Co., NY, USA1
MarriageJun 9, 1933Hastings-on-Hudson, NY, USA1
DeathJan 21, 1997Seattle, King Co., WA, USA1
BiographySwift: "Born in New York City, he grew up in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, graduated from Dartmouth College with a B.S. in 1927 and received an M.A. from Columbia University in 1941. He worked for 8 years in Wall Street, first with Brown Brothers Harriman, private bankers, and later with several bond trading firms. During World War II he was a Foreign Service Officer with the American Legation in Stockholm, Sweden. After the war he was Regional Economist in the N.Y.C. office of the U.S. Dept. of Commerce. Later he was a committee executive with the National Association of Manufacturers. He was appointed an Intelligence Officer in the Central Intelligence Agency in 1952 and retired in 1969. He and his wife lived in the Washington, D.C. area from the 1950s to the 1970s, and then in Montross, Westmoreland County, Virginia until early 1995 when they moved to Mercer Island, Washington. They maintained a summer home in Georgetown, Maine from the early 1950s until Norman's death. His widow Ruth still spends several summer weeks there each year until her death in 2002."1
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Citations

  1. [S415] E-mail from Jack Swift, Jan. 16, 2000.

Ethel Constance Longworth1

F, #46054, b. 25 November 1890, d. 9 September 1963

Family: Otis Peabody Swift

Biography

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BirthNov 25, 1890Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada1
MarriageJul 31, 1921Paris, France1
Divorcecirca 19401
DeathSep 9, 1963Hartford, CT, USA1
BiographySwift: " She grew up at "Bonnahinley", the Longworth family home in Charlottetown, P.E.I., Canada. She graduated from McGill University, Montreal, in 1912 and taught school in rural Quebec before becoming a foreign correspondent in Europe for the Montreal Star. She met and married Otis Peabody Swift in Europe, going to the United States with him in 1923. They lived in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York: and at times in Evanston, Illinois; New York City; Lake Placid, New York;Washington, D.C; and Madison, Connecticut before divorcing around 1940. She was a newspaper reporter and editor from the 1940's until her death, writing for newspapers in Daytona Beach, Florida; Guilford, Connecticut; and Deep River, Connecticut. Her principal home from 1936 to 1963 was "Blue Arrow", Madison, Connecticut."1
ParentsDJohn Augustus Longworth and Louise Caroline Palmer1
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Citations

  1. [S415] E-mail from Jack Swift, Jan. 16, 2000.

Marguerite Hoare Valler1

F, #46055, b. 19 February 1905, d. circa 28 October 1998

Family: Otis Peabody Swift

Biography

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BirthFeb 19, 1905Radlett, Herts, England1
Marriagecirca 1941Princeton, Mercer Co., NJ, USA1
Deathcirca Oct 28, 1998Bath, Sagadahoc Co., ME, USA1
ParentsDAlgernon John Hoare and Grace Milne Tollner1
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Citations

  1. [S415] E-mail from Jack Swift, Jan. 16, 2000.

John Longworth Peabody Swift1

M, #46056, b. 4 May 1922

Family: Frances Ellen Norton

Biography

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BirthMay 4, 1922London, England1
MarriageDec 20, 1946Madison, CT, USA1
BiographySwift: "Jack was born at 44 Harrington Road, Kensington, S.W., London, England, and was brought to the United States by his parents at the age of 9 months. He lived in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, and in various other locations in the United States and Canada until moving to Madison, Connecticut in 1935. He received a B.Sc degree from Trinity College, Hartford in 1942, served in the U.S. Army Air Force from 1942 to 1946 (in the Pacific Theater, discharged as a Captain), and married Frances Ellen Norton of Madison, Connecticut in 1946. He entered Yale University School of Engineering in 1946 and received a Bachelor of Engineering degree, with honors in civil engineering, in 1948. He worked as an engineer, planner and manager with various organizations in the U.S. and abroad from 1948 to 1998 (at least). The family lived in Louisiana, New Jersey, New York and Connecticut from 1948 to 1958, in Iran from 1958 to 1963, and in Connecticut again from 1963 to 1970. With their children grown, Jack and Fran lived in suburban Washington, D.C. from 1970 to 1982. They subsequently lived in Ireland 1982-83 and in Saudi Arabia 1983-85. Between 1958 and 1998 Jack travelled, often with Fran (and after 1988 always accompanied by her), to dozens of other countries in the course of consulting assignments. He and Fran owned a home in Madison, Connecticut from 1952 to 1970 and a home in Kensington, Maryland from 1970 to 1982. Home from 1982 onward has been at Bay Point, Georgetown, Maine. From 1989 to 1994 Jack and Fran lived in Islamabad, Pakistan where he worked with the U.S. Agency for International Development. Returning to Georgetown in late 1994 to live, he continues to provide consulting services in international electric power development -- work which involved trips for both of them to Pakistan (four months) in 1996, to India (three weeks) in 1997 and India and Nepal (five weeks) in 1998. At the time of Fran's death in May, 1999, Jack and Fran had been planning a return trip to Nepal. Their three children all
live in the United States, as do their eight grandchildren and their great-grandchild."1
ContributnJack and Fran Swift prepared this genealogy in Nov. 1995, and Jack revised it in Jan. 2000 and Mar. 2007
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  1. [S415] E-mail from Jack Swift, Jan. 16, 2000.

Barbara Peabody Swift1

F, #46057, b. 9 December 1923

Family: Stuart M. Ogilvy

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BirthDec 9, 1923Yonkers, NY, USA1
MarriageFeb, 1960New York, New York Co., NY, USA1
DivorceMar, 19641
BiographySwift: "She has been called Kate Swift for most of her adult life. She grew up in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York and Madison, Connecticut, attended Connecticut College, graduated University of North Carolina, B.A., 1944, served in the Women's Army Corps in World War II. As a writer and publicist she worked with Girl Scouts of U.S.A., national staff, in New York City, for the Port Authority of New Orleans, Louisiana, the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, and Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn. She is a free lance writer, and author with Casey Miller of two widely-read books on language, Words and Women and The Handbook of Non-Sexist Writing. She maintains a winter home at East Haddam, Conn. and a summer home in Georgetown, Maine."1
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Citations

  1. [S415] E-mail from Jack Swift, Jan. 16, 2000.

Marguerite Milne Swift1

F, #46058, b. 27 May 1943

Family: James Anthony Koller

Biography

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BirthMay 27, 1943New York, New York Co., NY, USA1
MarriageJun 21, 1972Georgetown, ME, USA1
DivorceNov 13, 19791
BiographySwift: "She grew up on the East Coast of the United States and in Europe, and traveled throughout Europe, North Africa and the Middle East in the early 1960's. She then moved to Arizona, attended Arizona State University, and later worked with the Office of Economic Opportunity as a photographer of community controlled schools and colleges on the Navajo Indian Reservation. After her marriage she moved to Georgetown, Maine, raised sheep and freelanced as a writer and documentary photographer. She returned to the Southwest in 1980 as a writer for the Chairman's Office of the Navajo Nation. In 1988 she obtained a B.S. in Applied Geography from Northern Arizona University. She subsequently obtained an M.A. degree in Public Administration, and works as a consultant in land use planning in Flagstaff, Arizona. . She has, in recent years, spent much time in Nepal and Sikkim, teaching anthropology for Naropa University, and as a board member for SEEDS, a non-governmental organization. She maintains a home near Flagstaff, Arizona, and in Georgetown, Maine.1
"
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Citations

  1. [S415] E-mail from Jack Swift, Jan. 16, 2000.

Ruth Mary Palmer1

F, #46059, b. 3 August 1911

Family: Norman Guernsey Swift

Biography

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BirthAug 3, 1911New York, New York Co., NY, USA1
MarriageJun 9, 1933Hastings-on-Hudson, NY, USA1
ParentsDWashington Palmer and Magdalena Burgin1
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Citations

  1. [S415] E-mail from Jack Swift, Jan. 16, 2000.

Donald Josiah Palmer Swift1

M, #46060, b. 26 July 1935

Family: Sondra Ford

Biography

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BirthJul 26, 1935Dobbs Ferry, NY, USA1
MarriageJun 10, 1961Washington, DC, USA1
BiographySwift: "Donald Josiah Palmer Swift attended schools in Hastings-on- Hudson, Dobbs Ferry and Middletown, New York, Brooksville, Maine, Madison, Connecticut, and Stockholm, Sweden, graduating from Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, Massachusetts in 1953. He majored in geology at Dartmouth College, received a B.A. with Departmental Honors, and was commissioned 2nd Lt. in the Signal Corps, A.U.S. in 1957. He served first on active duty and then in the Active Reserve. He received an M.A. from Johns Hopkins in 1961 and his Ph. D. in Geology from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C. in 1964. He taught at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Duke University, University of North Carolina, and Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. He spent ten years as a senior scientist with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and was on the research staff of Atlantic Refinery Co. (Arco) for four years. He has lived and worked in Canada, Puerto Rico, Texas, Florida, North Carolina and Virginia. He is the author of a number of technical books in the field of oceanography and is now Flover Professor of Oceanography (endowed chair), Department of Oceanography, Old Dominion University."

He attended schools in HastingsonHudson, Dobbs Ferry and Middletown, New York; Brooksville, Maine; Madison, Connecticut; and Stockholm, Sweden; graduating from Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, Massachusetts in 1953. He majored in geology at Dartmouth College, received a B.A. with Departmental Honors, and was commissioned 2nd Lt. in the Signal Corps, Army of the United States, in 1957. He served first on active duty and then in the Active Reserve. He received an M.A. from Johns Hopkins in 1961 and his Ph. D. in Geology from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina in 1964. He taught at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia; Duke University in Durham, North Carolina; and Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. He spent ten years as a senior scientist with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and was on the research staff of the Atlantic Richfield Co. for four years. He has lived and worked in Canada, Puerto Rico, Texas, Florida, North Carolina and Virginia. He is the author of a number of technical books in the field of oceanography and is now Slover Professor of Oceanography (endowed chair), Department of Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Old Dominion University. His wife Sandy, was a published author, and taught as an adjunct professor at two universities in the Norfolk area.1
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Citations

  1. [S415] E-mail from Jack Swift, Jan. 16, 2000.

Ruth Deborah Swift1

F, #46061, b. 14 January 1940

Family: Capt. Kenneth M. Zike

Biography

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BirthJan 14, 1940Middletown, NY, USA1
MarriageJun 19, 1965Alexandria, Arlington Co., VA, USA1
Mil. Serv.USMC
BiographySwift: "She attended schools in Brooksville, Maine, Madison, Connecticut, Dobbs Ferry, New York, Stockholm, Sweden, and graduated from St. Agnes Episcopal School for Girls, Alexandria, Virginia in 1954. She received a B.A. degree from Connecticut College, New London, Conn, in 1962, and an M.L.S. from Columbia University Library School in 1963. She took special courses at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Library and Information Studies in computer based information on law and medicine in 1983. Her professional experience includes positions as: Librarian, New York Public Library, New York City; Reference Librarian, University of California, Irvine, California; Reference Librarian, Federal Library, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, D.C; and Librarian in Charge, National Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland. From 1984 to 1995 she was Law Librarian for the law firm of Riddell, Williams, Bullitt and Walkinshaw in Seattle, Washington. With her husband she has lived on US Marine Corps posts in California, Virginia, Minnesota, South Carolina and the state of Washington. She and her husband now live at Mercer Island, Washington. "

She attended schools in Brooksville, Maine; Madison, Connecticut; Dobbs Ferry, New York; Stockholm, Sweden; and graduated from St. Agnes Episcopal School for Girls, Alexandria, Virginia in 1958. She received a B.A. in European History from Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut, in 1962, and an M.L.S. from Columbia University, School of Library Science in 1963. In 1983 she took graduate courses at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Library and Information Studies. Her professional experience includes positions as: Librarian, New York Public Library, New York City; Reference Librarian, University of California, Irvine, California; Reference Librarian, Federal Housing Administration Library, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, D.C; and Librarian in Charge, U.S. Naval School of Hospital Administration, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland. From 1984 to 1995 she was Law Librarian for the law firm of Riddell, Williams, Bullitt and Walkinshaw in Seattle, Washington. With her husband, who retired as a Lieutenant Colonel, USMC in 1983, she has lived on US Marine Corps bases in California, Virginia, Minnesota and South Carolina . She and her husband now live in Bellevue, Washington and spend summers at their cottage in Georgetown, Maine.1
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Citations

  1. [S415] E-mail from Jack Swift, Jan. 16, 2000.

Frances Ellen Norton1

F, #46062, b. 17 February 1926, d. 23 May 1999

Family: John Longworth Peabody Swift

Biography

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BirthFeb 17, 1926Madison, CT, USA1
MarriageDec 20, 1946Madison, CT, USA1
DeathMay 23, 1999Brunswick, Cumberland Co., ME, USA1
BiographySwift: " She grew up in Madison Connecticut, graduating from Daniel Hand High School there in 1944. She entered Connecticut College for Women, New London, Connecticut in that year, married John L. Swift in 1946 and graduated from Connecticut College with a B.A. in 1948. She lived subsequently in Louisiana, New Jersey, Connecticut, Maryland and Maine, as well as in Iran, Ireland, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. She worked as a preschool teacher, reporter & newspaper editor, public relations consultant, radio announcer/program producer for Radio Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and film and publications editor for international development organizations in Pakistan. She and her husband designed and built a house in Georgetown, Maine in 1980 which became the family's permanent residence, although they left it from time to time for short-term foreign trips and to live in Islamabad, Pakistan from 1989 to 1994. They continued to travel abroad on brief trips, and she was vigorously active in Georgetown's civic life, up until a few months before her death from lung cancer in 1999."1
ParentsDHarry Raymond Norton and Katharine Day Peck1
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Citations

  1. [S415] E-mail from Jack Swift, Jan. 16, 2000.

Katherine Garcelon Swift1

F, #46063, b. 11 March 1949

Family: Robert C. Gravino

Biography

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BirthMar 11, 1949Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Co., LA, USA1
MarriageOct 18, 1969Bainbridge, MD, USA1
Biographybetween 1999 and 2007Swift: "She attended schools in Madison, Connecticut and Khuzestan, Iran, graduating from High School in Madison in 1967. After attending Connecticut College 1967-69, she obtained a B.A. in sociology, magna cum laude, from the University of Maryland in 1981 and an M.S. in military sociology from the University of Maryland about 1990. Moving through US Coast Guard assignments, she has lived in Florida, New York, Puerto Rico, Maryland, Michigan, California, Virginia, Alaska, and Massachusetts. Her husband retired as a Captain, USCG in 1999; they now live in West Peabody, Massachusetts where he is Chief of Operations for the Public Works Department for the Town of Burlington, Massachusetts. She is a sociologist who has published work in the field of military sociology and has been a social worker in California and with Aleut families on Kodiak Island, Alaska. She is currently a member of the faculty of the North Shore Community College system, Essex County, Massachusetts."

Her husband Bob retired as a Captain, USCG in 1999. Kathy is a sociologist, with published work in the field of military sociology, who has been an administrator with American University in Washington, D.C., a social worker in California and with Aleut families on Kodiak Island, Alaska, and is currently a member of the faculty of the North Shore Community College, Essex County, Massachusetts. Bob is now Director of Public Works for the town of Ipswich, Massachusetts. Kathy and Bob established a condominium home in Peabody, Massachusetts in 1999 and, beginning in 2002, they built a house for holidays and eventually retirement in Bay Point, Georgetown, Maine at which they spend most weekends and holidays. In 2006 they purchased a house in Ipswich, Massachusetts which is now their primary residence.1
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Citations

  1. [S415] E-mail from Jack Swift, Jan. 16, 2000.

John Norton Swift Ph.D.1

M, #46064, b. 1 October 1950

Family 1: Leslie Elizabeth Santee

Family 2: Louise Fradenburg

Family 3: Cheryl Renee Colee

Biography

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BirthOct 1, 1950New York, New York Co., NY, USA1
MarriageMay 29, 1971Albany, Albany Co., NY, USA1
Divorce1977
MarriageJun, 1978Rockville, MD, USA1
Divorce19811
MarriageMar 25, 1983Pasadena, CA, USA1
Residence1999Whittier, Los Angeles Co., CA, USA1
BiographySwift: " He attended schools in Madison, Connecticut and Khuzestan, Iran, graduating from High School in Madison in 1968. He majored in English at Middlebury College, receiving a B.A. magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 1972. He obtained his M.A. in 1973 and his Ph.D. in 1978 from the University of Virginia. He has taught English Literature at Washington & Lee University and at Occidental College, where he is now Professor of English Literature. The family lives in
Whittier, California, where his wife is is the Irvine Professor of Environmental Biology at Whittier College. They established a second home at Bay Point, Georgetown, Maine in 2002 and regularly spend summer vacations and other holidays there."1
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Citations

  1. [S415] E-mail from Jack Swift, Jan. 16, 2000.

Peter Norton Swift Ph.D.1

M, #46065, b. 12 June 1953

Family: Virginia Joy Scharff

Biography

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BirthJun 12, 1953Middletown, CT, USA1
MarriageJun 28, 1980Clayton, MO, USA1
BiographySwift: " He attended schools in Madison, Connecticut and Khuzestan, Iran, graduating from high school in Madison as valedictorian of his class in 1970. He was graduated from Yale University in 1974 with a B.A. in English, worked as a field engineer in uranium exploration in the western United States 1975-1980, obtained a B.S. in 1981 and an M.S. in 1982 in geology at the University of Wyoming, and obtained his Ph.D. in geology at the University of Arizona in 1987. The family lived in Colorado and Texas in 1987 and 1988 while he worked with Chevron Oil Company as a geologist. The family moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico about 1989, where his wife is now Associate Professor of History at the University of New Mexico and he is a Senior Scientist with Sandia Laboratories. Peter worked initially for a consulting firm in Albuquerque, transferring later to Sandia Laboratories in Albuquerque where he is now a senior scientist and program manager in the field of nuclear waste disposal. He is currently the Chief Scientist for Sandia’s work on the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste disposal site.1 "
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Citations

  1. [S415] E-mail from Jack Swift, Jan. 16, 2000.

Stuart M. Ogilvy1

M, #46066

Family: Barbara Peabody Swift

Biography

Corresponded with authorN
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MarriageFeb, 1960New York, New York Co., NY, USA1
DivorceMar, 19641
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Citations

  1. [S415] E-mail from Jack Swift, Jan. 16, 2000.

James Anthony Koller1

M, #46067, b. 30 May 1936

Family: Marguerite Milne Swift

Biography

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BirthMay 30, 1936Oak Park, IL, USA1
MarriageJun 21, 1972Georgetown, ME, USA1
DivorceNov 13, 19791
ParentsSJames and Elsie Koller1
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Citations

  1. [S415] E-mail from Jack Swift, Jan. 16, 2000.

Jedediah Swift Koller1

M, #46068, b. 23 November 1973

Family: Rebecca de Groot

Biography

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BirthNov 23, 1973Brunswick, Cumberland Co., ME, USA1
Marriage2005Flagstaff, AZ, USA2
Biography2007Swift: "He attended schools in Georgetown, Maine and in Window Rock and Flagstaff, Arizona. He graduated from high school in Flagstaff, where he was active in Boy Scouts as a Patrol Leader and became an Eagle Scout. He worked during school summer vacations as a sheepherder and cowboy on the Navajo Indian Reservation. He subsequently worked on the north rim of the Grand Canyon as a tourist guide and in recent years has been professional tour raft operator on the Colorado and Green Rivers.1 "
Residence2007Flagstaff, AZ, USA
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Citations

  1. [S415] E-mail from Jack Swift, Jan. 16, 2000.
  2. [S415] E-mail from Jack Swift, Sep 8, 2007.

Theadora Swift Koller1

F, #46069, b. 27 December 1976

Biography

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BirthDec 27, 1976Brunswick, Cumberland Co., ME, USA1
Biography1999Swift: "She attended schools in Window Rock and Flagstaff, Arizona. She graduated from a private high school in Sonora, Arizona in 1994, worked as an environmental news researcher with the Cable News Network in Atlanta, Georgia, and is now attending Stanford University, Palo Alto California, where she expects to receive an M.A. degree in 2000 from Stanford University. Employed shortly thereafter with the World Health Organization she was originally based in Geneva. Switzerland and is now based in Venice, Italy. She has a home in Seggiano, Tuscany."1
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Citations

  1. [S415] E-mail from Jack Swift, Jan. 16, 2000.

Sondra Ford1

F, #46070, b. 20 January 1938, d. 9 November 2006

Family: Donald Josiah Palmer Swift

Biography

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BirthJan 20, 1938Washington, DC, USA1
MarriageJun 10, 1961Washington, DC, USA1
DeathNov 9, 2006Norfolk, VA, USA2
ParentsDRobert Ford and Mary Trimble Gaddis1
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Citations

  1. [S415] E-mail from Jack Swift, Jan. 16, 2000.
  2. [S415] E-mail from John Longworth Swift, Mar. 20, 2007.

Etain Ann Swift1

F, #46071, b. 5 October 1963

Family: Edward George Hall II

Biography

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BirthOct 5, 1963Washington, DC, USA1
MarriageDec 28, 1985Richardson, TX, USA1
Divorcecirca 19901
Residence1999Norfolk, VA, USA, with her parents.
Biography2007Swift: She attended schools in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico; Durham, North Carolina: Miami, Florida; and Dallas, Texas, and has studied at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. She currently lives with her parents in Norfolk, Virginia.2
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Citations

  1. [S415] E-mail from Jack Swift, Jan. 16, 2000.
  2. [S415] E-mail from John Longworth Swift, Mar. 20, 2007.

Cecelia Jane Swift1

F, #46072, b. 9 February 1965

Family: Danny Petretto

Biography

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BirthFeb 9, 1965Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada1
Marriagecirca 1995Norfolk, VA, USA1
Residencebetween 1999 and 2007Virginia Beach, VA, USA, where he is a carpenter and she is a student in a master's degree program in Education.1
BiographySwift: . She attended schools in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico; Durham, North Carolina: Miami, Florida; and Dallas, Texas; and was graduated from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia with an A.B. in English in 1996. She and her husband, with their children, live in Virginia Beach, Virginia where he is a carpenter and she is an adjunct instructor of English at Tidewater Community College.2
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Citations

  1. [S415] E-mail from Jack Swift, Jan. 16, 2000.
  2. [S415] E-mail from John Longworth Swift, Mar. 20, 2007.

Colin Butler Carroll1

M, #46073, b. 15 November 1978

Biography

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BirthNov 15, 19781
Education1999Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA, a sophomore1
Biography2007, received a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Old Dominion University and now lives in Fairfax , Virginia where he is a therapist at a psychiatric treatment center. .2
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Citations

  1. [S415] E-mail from Jack Swift, Jan. 16, 2000.
  2. [S415] E-mail from John Longworth Swift, Mar. 20, 2007.

Capt. Kenneth M. Zike1

M, #46074, b. 30 November 1937

Family: Ruth Deborah Swift

Biography

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BirthNov 30, 1937Barberton, Summit Co., OH, USA1
MarriageJun 19, 1965Alexandria, Arlington Co., VA, USA1
ParentsSGeorge Kenneth Zike and Evelyn Ann Ware
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Citations

  1. [S415] E-mail from Jack Swift, Jan. 16, 2000.

David Noel Zike1

M, #46075, b. 22 April 1969

Family: Una May Butler

Biography

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BirthApr 22, 1969Quantico, VA, USA1
Education1991Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, USA1
Residence1999Seattle, King Co., WA, USA1
MarriageMay 19, 2007Ballintubber Abbey, Co. Mayo, Ireland2
BiographySwift: "He attended schools in Virginia, South Carolina, California and the state of Washington where he graduated in 1991 with a B.S. in mathematics from Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington and in 1996 with a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Washington State University, Pullman, Washington. He lived in Seattle, Washington working with the Boeing Company until 2003 when he moved to Auckland, New Zealand where he was employed by Air New Zealand as an aeronautical engineer until November 2004 when he returned to Seattle as an engineer with Boeing. He is now an engineer at SR Technics in Dublin, Ireland.3
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Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S415] E-mail from Jack Swift, Jan. 16, 2000.
  2. [S415] E-mail from Jack Swift, Sep 8, 2007.
  3. [S415] E-mail from John Longworth Swift, Mar. 20, 2007.

Christopher Palmer Zike1

M, #46076, b. 26 December 1980, d. 26 December 1980

Biography

Corresponded with authorN
A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
BirthDec 26, 1980Paris Island, SC, USA1
DeathDec 26, 1980Paris Island, SC, USA, at birth.1
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S415] E-mail from Jack Swift, Jan. 16, 2000.

Robert C. Gravino1

M, #46077, b. 22 July 1947

Family: Katherine Garcelon Swift

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
BirthJul 22, 1947New Haven, CT, USA1
MarriageOct 18, 1969Bainbridge, MD, USA1
Milit-End1999as a Captaim in US Coast Guard
ParentsSArmand Gravino and Elizabeth Jester1
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S415] E-mail from Jack Swift, Jan. 16, 2000.

Timothy Robert Gravino1

M, #46078, b. 7 March 1970

Family: Tara Christine Toth

Biography

Corresponded with authorN
A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
BirthMar 7, 1970Annapolis, Anne Arundel Co., MD, USA1
MarriageFeb 4, 1995Hightstown, NJ, USA1
Residence2007Bordentown, NJ, USA
BiographySwift: "He attended schools in Puerto Rico, Maryland and Michigan, and was graduated from high school in Castro Valley, California in 1988. He graduated from American University, Washington D.C. in 1992. with a B.A. As a high school student he traveled in Mexico, Spain and France and he later spent a college semester studying in Spain. After graduation from college he worked in law enforcement with the U.S. Coast Guard in Washington, D.C. He joined the U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Service in 1994 and after completion of training at the Federal Law Enforcement Academy in Glencoe, Georgia on February 3, 1995 was assigned as a Border Patrol Agent in San Diego, California... He and his wife now live in San Diego, California where he is a Senior Border Patrol Agent with the U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Service. He has been employed since 2002 by the Federal Express Company, recently as manager of security for the company’s middle-Atlantic region air operations, headquartered at Newark Airport, New Jersey. He and Tara purchased a mid-19th century townhouse, in Bordentown, New Jersey from which they will be moving in the near future to the vicinity of Lakeland, Florida where Tim will be the Managing Director of Security for a major subsidiary of Federal Express."1
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S415] E-mail from Jack Swift, Jan. 16, 2000.

Kelly Elizabeth Gravino1

F, #46079, b. 17 December 1972

Family: Richard Scott Russell

Biography

Corresponded with authorN
A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
BirthDec 17, 1972New York, New York Co., NY, USA1
MarriageJun 21, 1997Georgetown, ME, USA1
BiographySwift: "She attended schools in Puerto Rico, Maryland, Michigan, California and Virginia. As a high school student she traveled in Mexico and Spain. She spent her college junior year in Ireland, and traveled in Europe. She was graduated from Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut in 1994 with a B.A. degree. She worked initially after graduation as counselor for mentally ill persons in Worcester and Boston, Massachusetts... Kelly and her husband live in Beverly, Massachusetts, where both are employed as social workers. On 1997/6/21 in Georgetown, Maine she married Richard Scott Russell, who was born 1971/6/21, the son of Richard William Russell and Barbara Anne Moody of Boxford, Massachusetts. Kelly and Scott obtained their degrees of Master of Social Work from Boston University in 1998. She is employed is a social worker with the Salem Hospital in Salem, Massachusetts and was an adjunct instructor in the Psychology Department at Endicott College, Beverly, Massachusetts. Scott is the Senior Counselor at Endicott College. The family lives in Ipswich, Massachusetts."1
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S415] E-mail from Jack Swift, Jan. 16, 2000.

Leslie Elizabeth Santee

F, #46080, b. 8 August 1950

Family: John Norton Swift Ph.D.

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
BirthAug 8, 1950Albany, Albany Co., NY, USA
MarriageMay 29, 1971Albany, Albany Co., NY, USA1
Divorce1977
ParentsDHarold Santee and Marcia Sweeney1
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S415] E-mail from Jack Swift, Jan. 16, 2000.