Gustavus Franklin Swift

William Swift of Bocking, England landed in Massachusetts in 1634 with his wife and family, where they would initially settle in Watertown and buy property in Sudbury. Due to financial concerns he would move to the Old Colony area of Sandwich on Cape Cod.

Gustavus F. Swift was a descendant of William Swift and grew up cattle farming on Cape Cod in the mid 1800s. He would eventually become successful enough to move his business to Chicago and help implement refrigerated rail cars to allow his product to be shipped all over the United States.

Swift,Ogden Armour, Edward Morris and the firm of Kuhn, Loeb and Company would eventually form what would become known as the National Packing Company. They would control the market so much that the Supreme Court ordered the group dissolved.

Swift would help found the City of South San Francisco.