Charles Thomas Swift
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Charles Thomas Swift was a prominent Atlanta businessman who became rich marketing the S.S.S tonic, still in production today by S.S.S. Company. The tonic was reportedly an "old [American] Indian remedy for blood poison".
In 1879 he founded S.S.S as a partnership with Henry J. Lamar of Macon, Georgia
and Jesse W. Rankin
, a co-founder of the Metropolitan Street Railroad horsecars in Atlanta.
The company became one of the wealthiest patent medicine concerns in the country, and S. S. S. had been introduced into every "nook and corner" of the US.
His mansion at the 215 Capitol Avenue (NW corner of Crumley Street) in the then-affluent Washington-Rawson
neighborhood was later used as the Piedmont Sanitorium, which would become Piedmont Hospital
. The Washington-Rawson neighborhood was razed in the early 1960s to make way for Atlanta Fulton County Stadium and its parking lots; now the site is part of the large Turner Field
parking lot.
In 1879 he founded S.S.S as a partnership with Henry J. Lamar of Macon, Georgia
Macon, Georgia
Macon is a city located in central Georgia, US. Founded at the fall line of the Ocmulgee River, it is part of the Macon metropolitan area, and the county seat of Bibb County. A small portion of the city extends into Jones County. Macon is the biggest city in central Georgia...
and Jesse W. Rankin
Jesse W. Rankin
Dr. Jesse Willis Rankin was a leading Atlanta businessman of the 19th century. He cofounded the S. S. S. Company along with Charles T. Swift, which would become at one point the country's largest patent medicine company...
, a co-founder of the Metropolitan Street Railroad horsecars in Atlanta.
The company became one of the wealthiest patent medicine concerns in the country, and S. S. S. had been introduced into every "nook and corner" of the US.
His mansion at the 215 Capitol Avenue (NW corner of Crumley Street) in the then-affluent Washington-Rawson
Washington-Rawson
Washington-Rawson was a neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia. It included the area that is now the large parking lot north of Turner Field, until 1997 the site of Atlanta Fulton County Stadium. It also included the intersection of the two streets for which it was named; that intersection's location is...
neighborhood was later used as the Piedmont Sanitorium, which would become Piedmont Hospital
Piedmont Hospital
Piedmont Hospital is a major hospital at 2002 Peachtree Road at Collier Road in the Buckhead area of Atlanta, Georgia.-Washington Street location:...
. The Washington-Rawson neighborhood was razed in the early 1960s to make way for Atlanta Fulton County Stadium and its parking lots; now the site is part of the large Turner Field
Turner Field
Turner Field is a stadium in Atlanta, Georgia, home to Major League Baseball's Atlanta Braves since 1997. Turner Field was originally built as Centennial Olympic Stadium, it was completed in 1996 to serve as the centerpiece of the 1996 Summer Olympics...
parking lot.