Helen Swift Neilson (1869 – 18 June 1945) was an American writer and art collector.
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Born | 1869 |
Died | 18 June 1945 (aged 76) Chicago |
Spouse(s) | Edward Morris (spouse) Francis Neilson |
Children | Edward Morris, Jr. Nelson Morris Ruth Morris Bakwin Muriel Morris Gardiner Buttinger |
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Family | Ira Nelson Morris (brother-in-law) Nelson Morris (father-in-law) |
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 4 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 remarried to 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 called My Father and My Mother.[4]
Neilson died in Chicago. She bequeathed several notable paintings to the Metropolitan Museum of Art:
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