Edwin Swift was born November 6, 1806, son of Samuel and Mary (Shippen) Swift. He was a member of the Philadelphia Club, President of the Little Schuylkill Navigation, Railroad and Coal Company from December 7, 1836 to May 20, 1844; and Director of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company from June 1, 1868 until his death in 1891.
Balch, Thomas Willing et. al. "The Swift Family of Philadelphia." The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 30, no. 2, 1906, pp. 129-158. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/20085329.
By Thomas Willing Balch, p. 32.
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