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Joseph Gardner Swift was born on December 31, 1783 on Nantucket Island, the son of Foster Swift and his wife, Deborah. His father, a physician in private practice, had recently been surgeon on a naval vessel and from 1814 until his death in 1835 was an army surgeon; his mother was Deborah, daughter of Thomas Delano of Nantucket, of Huguenot ancestry.
In the summer of 1801, Secretary of War Henry Dearborn notified the Army that President Thomas Jefferson had directed the establishment of a military academy at West Point, New York. Swift reported to the academy on October 14, 1801.
On December 15, 1801, then-Major Jonathan Williams took command and several months later became the first Superintendent of the United States Military Academy. The Academy was established by law on March 16, 1802. Swift progressed well and was considered by Williams to be the foremost cadet. After a thorough examination, Swift became the first graduate of the Academy on October 12, 1802. Simeon Magruder Levy was the only other graduate in 1802.
Joseph Swift was appointed on May 12, 1800, a cadet (apprentice officer) in the corps of artillerists and engineers and served at Newport, Rhod Island, until transferred to West Point, New York, in October 1801.
On March 16, 1802, the United States Military Academy was formally established to provide for the training of cadets at that place instead of with their several organizations as formerly. At first there was no definite period of residence or course of study.
Swift and one other, commissioned second lieutenants on October 12, 1802, are regarded as the first graduating class. The rapid expansion of the tiny American army gave Swift correspondingly rapid promotion. He was promoted first lieutenant of engineers on June 11, 1805.
In 1816 the government brought the French military engineer, Simon Bernard, to the United States and placed him in practical charge of all fortification work, though without actual rank. Swift remained chief engineer of the army, but his activities did not extend much beyond the administration of the Military Academy, of which the chief engineer was then ex officio superintendent. Finding the situation intolerable, he resigned from the army, November 12, 1818.
He was surveyor of the port of New York until 1826, and then chief engineer of several railroads, including the Baltimore & Susquehanna, the New Orleans & Lake Pontchartrain, and the New York & Harlem.
From 1829 to 1845 he was a civil engineer in government service, in charge of harbor improvement on the Great Lakes. He spent the latter part of his life at Geneva, New York.
During his miliatry career Joseph Swift achieved promotion from the rank of lieutenant-colonel, 1812 to the rank of colonel and chief engineer of the army at the age of twenty-eight. He was in the field with General James Wilkinson's army in 1813 during the abortive invasion of Canada which is chiefly remembered for the battle of Chrystler's Fields and received for his services the brevet rank of brigadier-general in February 1814. He was also in charge of the construction of the fortifications of the city of New York, undertaken as a result of the British raids in the Chesapeake Bay and completed in great haste following the capture of Washington. On account of his influence over younger engineers, such as his brother-in-law, George W. Whistler, and William Gibbs McNeill, who looked up to him as their leader and model, he is an important figure in the history of his profession. Among Swift's other achievements are: serving as a founding trustee of the General Theological Seminary in New York City, being a founder of the American and Foreign Bible Society, and serving as a founding officer of the New York City Philharmonic Society.
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In his religious affiliation Joseph Swift was an active and opinionated Episcopalian.
A slave owner, Swift resented abolitionist efforts to disturb his servants but freed them. And though he opposed interference with the institution of slavery in the slave states, he opposed its extension elsewhere; the last words in his journal are a plea for humane treatment of Confederate prisoners and a stern opposition to Southern independence.
Swift used to be in the Masonic order but left because he considered it un-American.
Quotations: When the citizens of Wilmington gave him a testimonial dinner, Swift proposed a toast to "North Carolina and her liberal spirit, as evinced in her carte blanche order to Canova for a sculpture of Washington, at an expense limited only by the artist's decision. "
Joseph Swift accepted the membership offered to him in the Society of Statistics of Paris, France. He was also a member of the American and Foreign Bible Society, and of the New York City Philharmonic Society.
Personally, Joseph Swift was "a pink-cheeked, chubby optimist, a handsome man, a hard and methodical worker" (personal letter from William Patten).
Joseph Gardner Swift was married to Louisa Margaret on June 6, 1805, who was a daughter of James Walker of Wilmington, North Carolina. He had six children: Charlotte Swift, born April 5, 1826, died December 31, 1840; Julius H. Swift, died February 6, 1850, aged 35; Thomas Delano Swift, born Wilmington, November 27, 1812, died Geneva September 1829; James Thomas Swift, died July 31, 1890; Foster Swift, M. D. , born Geneva October 31, 1833, died Santa Cruz, West Indies May 10, 1875; Jonathan Williams Swift, Commodore, United States Navy, born Taunton, March 30, 1808, died Geneva July 30, 1877.
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Major Swift had read accounts of the American Revolution in his father’s diary and heard stories from a family friend, Major General David Cobb.
