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Swift (EBEN an American military Wis)

EBEN, an American military (Wis.) College, Washington University and Dickinson College, and graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1876. In the same year he was commissioned a 2d lieutenant, and rising through the various grades became brigadier-general in 1916 and major-general in 1917. He saw service in the Indian campaigns in Wyoming, Montana, Nebraska, Idaho and Colorado; in Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands and at the Mexican border. His other assignments included service with the infantry and cavalry schools, the General Service and Staff College, the Army War College and the Army service schools, of which latter he was comral Service and Staff College, the Army United States in the World War, he be- War College and the Army service schools, of which latter he was comdon, Atlanta, Ga., and later of the 82d Division, with which he served in France SWIFT until February, 1918. From February to can Military Mission and commander of August, 1918, he was chief of the Ameritember, 1918. ing upon reaching the age limit in September, 1918.