Helen Swift Neilson (1869 – 18 June 1945) was an American writer and art collector.

Biography

Neilson was the daughter of Annie Maria (née Higgins) and Gustavus Franklin Swift, founder of the meatpacking company Swift & Co. Her first husband was Edward Morris, son of Nelson Morris, the founder of Morris & Company, a competitor to her father.[1] They had four children: Edward Morris, Jr., Nelson Swift Morris, Ruth Morris Bakwin, and Muriel Morris Gardiner Buttinger.[1][2] In 1913, her husband died, and in 1917, she married British politician and writer Francis Neilson, with whom she founded the weekly paper The Freeman in 1920.[3]

She is perhaps best known for her book about her parents, titled My Father and My Mother.[4]

Neilson died in Chicago, Illinois. She bequeathed several notable paintings to the Metropolitan Museum of Art:

References

  1. ^ a b Roth, Nelson (Spring 2008). "Nelson Morris and "The Yards"" (PDF). Chicago Jewish Historical Society.
  2. ^ "Nelson Morris Dies In N.Y. as He Leaves Ship". Chicago Tribune. October 7, 1955.
  3. ^ In Memoriam: Helen Swift Neilson, The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 4, No. 4 (July 1945), pp. 511–513, on Jstor.
  4. ^ My Father and My Mother, The Lakeside Press, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., Chicago, 1937.
Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Swift_Neilson
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