Michael J Swift, senior member of the firm Swift, McCrindle & Company, wholesale merchants, of No 440 Sixth avenue, Scranton, has been all his life connected with mercantile dealings. He is the son of Michael and Honora (O'Boyle) Swift, both deceased, and was born in Dunmore, Pennsylvania, 24 Jan 1859, there attending the public schools, his scholastic training including high school instruction. In 1882 he began his association with mercantile firms as a clerk in the store of T H Watts, later becoming a road salesman and so continuing for twenty years, during the last five years of that time being a member of the firm T H Watts & Company. At the end of that time he formed a partnership with John McCrindle as Swift, McCrindle & Company, wholesale merchants, their line including flour flour, cheese, butter and eggs. The firm's business is one of generous proportions, and is conducted on safe and conservative business lines, both partners merchants of long standing, men of sound and honorable principles which they apply to all of their dealings. Mr Swift is a Democrat in politics and has held public office as the candidate of that party. He is a member of the Scranton Board of Trade, the Knights of Columbus, and belongs to St Mary's Roman Catholic Church.
Mr Swift married Etta, daughter of Cormick Cummings, of Honesdale, Pennsylvania, and has children: Harold, Horace, Regina, Laura. The family home is at No 1739 Quincy avenue, Dunmore, Pennsylvania.