Frank W. Swallow of Exeter, NH Biography from A History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire (1915)

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Source: A History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
         by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill, 1915

Page 851

     FRANK W. SWALLOW, of Exeter, N. H., owner and proprietor
of a flourishing post card business, was born in Exeter in 1864, the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Franklin G. Swallow.  His father was a map publisher,
and did an extensive business in Boston, Mass.
     Frank W. Swallow was educated in the grammar schools of Exeter,
N. H., and the High School of Melrose, Mass.  He began his industrial
life as a salesman in the china and crockery business, traveling for one
Boston house for a period of fifteen years. He then engaged in the
real estate business.  When in association with H. F. Dunn he opened
four streets in the west end of Exeter-Washington, Cottage, McKinley
and Hobart streets-and was joint owner of this property with Mr.
Dunn for about ten years.  He then became interested in the post card
business, and throughout many New England towns was the first to in-
troduce local view post cards.  Meeting with success, he later began
the manufacture of post cards and with a business steadily growing,
makes large numbers of local views from hundreds of New England
towns besides filling mail orders from several other states.  He belongs
to the Blue Lodge and Chapter of the Masonic order at Exeter, and in
politics is a Republican.
     Mr. Swallow was married in 1891 to Jennie E. Johnson, a native
of northern Vermont, and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Dexter Johnson.