Swartwout is a Dutch surname, a variant of
Swarthout (literally, ''black skin'').
[ Notable people with it include:
*]Cornelius Swartwout
Cornelius Swartwout (July 25, 1839 – December 17, 1910) was an American inventor who filed an early US design patent, patent related to waffle irons.
Biography
Swartwout was born in Westerlo, New York. The Swartwout family lineage goes back t ...
(1839–1910), American inventor
*Egerton Swartwout
Egerton Swartwout (March 3, 1870 – February 18, 1943) was an American architect, most notably associated with his New York City architectural firm Tracy and Swartwout and McKim, Mead & White. His buildings, numbering over 100, were typicall ...
(1870–1943), American architect
**Tracy and Swartwout
Tracy and Swartwout was a prominent New York City architectural firm headed by Evarts Tracy and Egerton Swartwout.
History
Evarts Tracy (1868–1922) was the son of first cousins Jeremiah Evarts Tracy and Martha Sherman Greene. His paternal grand ...
, an architectural firm in New York City
* Frederick Swartwout Cozzens (1818–1869), American humorist
*Jacobus Swartwout
Jacobus Swartwout (1734–1827) was an early American landowner, statesman, and military leader. Swartwout served as a brigadier general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War under General George Washington. He was a close ...
(1734–1827), American landowner, statesman and military leader
* Robert Swartwout (1779–1848), American military officer, merchant and alderman
* Robert Egerton Swartwout (1905–1951), American-born author, poet and cartoonist
* Roeloff Swartwout (1634–1715), Dutch settler in America
*Samuel Swartwout
Samuel Swartwout (November 17, 1783 – November 21, 1856) was an American soldier, merchant, speculator, and politician. He is best known for his role in the Swartwout-Hoyt scandal, in which he was alleged to have embezzled $1,222,705.09 ...
(1783–1856), American soldier, merchant and politician
**Swartwout–Hoyt scandal
The Swartwout-Hoyt scandal was a political scandal in 1829. It arose from corruption in the Office of the Collector of the Port of New York.
Background
In 1829, President Andrew Jackson appointed Samuel Swartwout to serve as Collector of the Port ...
, a political scandal in 1829
*Thomas Samuel Swartwout
Thomas "Maas" Swartwout (c. 1660 – ) was one of the earliest settlers of the Neversink and Delaware River Valley, early landowner in colonial America, one of seven holders of the Wagheckemeck ( Minisink Region) Peenpack land patent then in Ulst ...
(1660–1723), American settler
*Tomys Swartwout
Thomas or Tomys Swartwout (June 1, 1607 in Groningen – October 1679, in Amsterdam)Municipal Archives Amsterdam, Burials book 1228, p. 26 was one of the earliest importers of tobacco from New Netherland to western and northern Europe, one of earl ...
(1607–1660), Dutch merchant, ancestor of Robert Swartwout
References
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Dutch-language surnames