Auxiliary Family Lines – Roosevelt, Churchill and Justice, 1763 - 1970

Edith Steel Swift, the donor of the collection, interviewed friends and family members between the years 1986-1999. The collection is a series of oral histories with a select family members and friends documenting their reflections and memories of the Mishaum Point and Swift, Steel and Wesselhoef families. The following individuals were interviewed: Charles Gulick (1900- ), son-in-law of Humphrey Hathaway Swift; Deborah Bradley Latta a resident of New Bedford and friend of Edith Steel Swift; Huldah Moss, niece of Edith Steel Swift; Dodre Powell friend of donor, Edith Steel Swift; Humphrey Hathaway III and Steven H. Swift, sons of Robert Wesselhoeft Swift and Conrad Wesselhoeft (1922 - ), son of Conrad Wesselhoeft and 3 Frances Gordon Kittrich Wesselhoeft. The remaining collection is a series of photocopies of 19th and 20th century manuscript materials pertaining to the Swift, Wesselhoeft and Steel family genealogy and business histories. The collection is divided into four series, which are arranged by content and format. Series I is a collection of oral histories comprised of three actual recorded interviews and seven transcripts. Series II is collection of genealogical charts, histories, correspondence, biographical essays, obituaries related to the Swift, Wesselhoeft and Steel family. A large portion of the manuscript material relates to the donor’s father, Humphrey Hathaway Swift III. These materials include magazine articles on Swift Instruments the family business, reminiscences of Mishaum Point, ship logs of his sailboat, Sea Horse and materials presented at his memorial service in the year 2000. Series III is photographs of Swift family members. Series IV is genealogy of Richard Sturgis Perkins, III of Mishaum Point Massachusetts, a friend of the family.