Eben Swift was a Major General

Major general (United States)

In the United States Army, United States Marine Corps, and United States Air Force, major general is a two-star general-officer rank, with the pay grade of O-8. Major general ranks above brigadier general and below lieutenant general...

 in the United States Army

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Biography

Swift was born on May 11, 1854 at Fort Chadbourne

Fort Chadbourne

Fort Chadbourne was a fort established by the United States Army on October 28, 1852, in what is now Coke County, Texas, to protect the western frontier and the Butterfield Overland Mail route. It was manned by the 8th U.S. Infantry...

 to Captain Ebenezer Swift and his wife, Sarah. He would attend Racine College

Racine College

Racine College was an Episcopal college in Racine, Wisconsin, founded in 1852. The collegiate department closed in 1887, but the college continued to be used as a grammar school and a military school until it closed in 1933....

, Washington University in St. Louis

Washington University in St. Louis

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, and Dickinson College

Dickinson College

Dickinson College is a private, residential liberal arts college in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Originally established as a Grammar School in 1773, Dickinson was chartered September 9, 1783, five days after the signing of the Treaty of Paris, making it the first college to be founded in the newly...

. On May 18, 1880 he married Susan Bonaparte Palmer, daughter of Brigadier General

Brigadier general (United States)

A brigadier general in the United States Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps, is a one-star general officer, with the pay grade of O-7. Brigadier general ranks above a colonel and below major general. Brigadier general is equivalent to the rank of rear admiral in the other uniformed...

 Innis N. Palmer

Innis N. Palmer

Innis Newton Palmer was a career officer in the United States Army, serving in the Mexican-American War, the Civil War, and on the Western frontier....

, and had five children. Their son, Innis P. Swift

Innis P. Swift

Innis Palmer Swift was a Major General in the United States Army. He was the grandson and namesake of Civil War Major General Innis Newton Palmer, as well as the grandson of Brigadier General Ebenezer Swift...

, would also become a Major General. One of the daughters, Clara, would marry Brigadier General Evan Harris Humphrey

Evan Harris Humphrey

Evan Harris Humphrey was a Brigadier General in the United States Army.-Biography:Humphrey was born on March 5, 1875 in California. His father was Major General and Medal of Honor recipient Charles Frederic Humphrey, Sr., his brothers were Brigadier General Charles F. Humphrey and Marine Corps...

. Swift died on April 25, 1938 in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

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. He, along with Susan, his father and mother-in-law, Clara, and Evan, is buried at Arlington National Cemetery

Arlington National Cemetery

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Career

Swift graduated from the United States Military Academy

United States Military Academy

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 in 1876. He would serve in the Spanish-American War

Spanish-American War

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 and the Pancho Villa Expedition

Pancho Villa Expedition

The Pancho Villa Expedition—officially known in the United States as the Mexican Expedition and sometimes colloquially referred to as the Punitive Expedition—was a military operation conducted by the United States Army against the paramilitary forces of Mexican insurgent Francisco "Pancho" Villa...

. Swift was named commander of Camp Gordon in 1917. Later he served as Director of the United States Army War College. During World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

 he commanded the 82nd Division. Following the war he would become commanding officer of U.S. Forces in Italy

Italy

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. He would retire in 1918.

Camp Swift, Texas

Camp Swift, Texas

Camp Swift is a census-designated place in Bastrop County, Texas, United States. The population was 4,731 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Camp Swift is located at...

is named for him.