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The Barre Daily Times
Barre, Washington County, Vermont
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Samuel Worcester Swift of Springfield, Mass., vowed at the Civil War's outbreak not to shave until its end due to his Union sympathies; he kept the pledge for 49 years, growing a prized flowing beard celebrated on his 85th birthday.
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Springfield Man Has Not Used Razor Since the Civil War Begun.
Springfield, Mass., Dec. 12.—Samuel Worcester Swift of 18 Princeton street made a vow over 40 years ago not to touch a razor to his face and has kept his pledge.
Swift was a railroad man in the South at the outbreak of the Civil war. He was a Union man, and when hostilities began he vowed he would not lay hands again on a razor or be shaved by anyone until the war was over. The war passed and peace settled upon the land, but in that time Swift had rather got ten away from the idea of shaving and decided not to part with his flowing beard.
Swift has grown to have great pride in his possession and the way in which he secured it.
In late years he has trimmed his beard, but back in the days when he was a fire chief in Frankfort, Ky., he sported a set of whiskers that reached to his waist and a mustache, the ends of which were long enough to curl back of his ears.
He celebrated his 85th birthday recently and his whiskers were one of the chief causes of congratulation.
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Outbreak Of The Civil War
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Samuel Worcester Swift, a Union-sympathizing railroad man in the South, vowed at the Civil War's start not to shave until its end; post-war, he retained his flowing beard out of habit and pride, trimming it later after sporting waist-length whiskers as fire chief in Frankfort, Ky., and celebrated his 85th birthday with congratulations on his whiskers.