Chicago— provides a history of Chicago's meat packing industry from the viewpoint of the son of the founder of the largest packing company in the world. Thomas W. Goodspeed (1921) "Gustavus Franklin Swift." External links Annie May Swift Hall at Northwestern University. Scheduled To Close: Swift & Co. Plant Was a Boon to SSF from City of South San Francisco official website Gustavus Franklin Swift — American National Business Hall of Fame (2002). Swift & Company official website 1839 births 1903 deaths Businesspeople in the meat packing industry 19th-century American businesspeople University of Chicago people Northwestern University trustees American people in rail transportation South Omaha, Nebraska People from Bourne, Massachusetts Businesspeople from Chicago Burials at Mount Hope Cemetery (Chicago)