Background
Swinburne was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1805.
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William Swinburne
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Career
By 1833 he had moved to Paterson, New Jersey, where, in 1837 he was employed by Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor as a pattern maker. Swinburne"s company did not survive the Panic of 1857 and was reorganized in 1858 as the New Jersey Locomotive and Machine Company. After leaving the locomotive manufacturing trade, Swinburne held a number of public offices in Paterson until his death in 1883.
