SWIFT EEC

Residence of E. E. C. Sw^ift, Sr. 

pUGENE E. C. SWIFT 8 (Thomas L.,' Elijah,^ William,? William/ Wil- 
liam, ? William,^ William),^ was born in 1836. After having graduated 
from Lawrence Academy at the age of nineteen, he was placed by his parents 
in the wholesale dry-goods house of Clement Salisbury, Boston, for the purpose 
of acquiring a thorough business education, with which house he remained 
tlve years, having filled the position of entry and shipping clerk, salesman and 
bookkeeper, and left said concern to engage in business for himself. He was 
in business six years in Cincinnati, where he was married. He carried on a 
mercantile business in Falmouth ten years, and at Woods Holl five years. 
His efficient service as Postmaster at Falmouth was from 1885 to October 12, 
1889. His livery business and running barges from Falmouth depot to Fal- 
mouth Heights, in the summer season, require thirty horses. He now also 
gives his own personal attention to the most extensive real estate business of 
the town. (NAPLES)