Background
Swett, Louis William was born on October 2, 1880 in Riverside, California, United States. Son of Lewis Girdler and Anna Jones (Norcross) Swett.
Swett, Louis William was born on October 2, 1880 in Riverside, California, United States. Son of Lewis Girdler and Anna Jones (Norcross) Swett.
Student Harvard, 1900-1902.
Proprietor The Modern Shop, dry goods, Lexington. Specialist in butterflies and moths. Regarded as authority on geometrid moths of the United States.
Donated his collection of butterflies and moths (the largest private collection then in the United States) to Agassiz Museum, Harvard, 1912.
Associate editor The Lepidopterist. Home: Lexington, Massachusetts
Married Alice Fairall Trochu, October 2, 1911.