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2 unusual facts about Eben Swift


Eben Swift

On May 18, 1880 he married Susan Bonaparte Palmer, daughter of Brigadier General Innis N. Palmer, and had five children.

One of the daughters, Clara, would marry Brigadier General Evan Harris Humphrey.


Evan Harris Humphrey

Humphrey would marry Clara Swift, daughter of Major General Eben Swift and sister of Major General Innis P. Swift.

Innis N. Palmer

His son in law was Major General Eben Swift who at one time commanded the 5th Cavalry and his grandson and namesake was Major General Innis Palmer Swift, who commanded the 1st Cavalry Division and I Corps in the South Pacific in World War II.


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