Carl K. Swanson

(1879-1949) lived in Omaha. Manufacturing company executive, known for pioneering in the convenience food industry, he presided over C.A. Swanson and Sons (which merged in 1955 with Campbell Soup Company) when it became a leader in processing butter, dressing chicken and turkey, packing eggs, and manufacturing canned meat and later in the early 1950s frozen-prepared poultry products and complete dinners known as TV dinners. Consult Famous Leaders of Industry, Fifth Series (L. G. Page, 1945) 311-323 and National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Vol 40 (1955) 116-117 and Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald Magazine of the Midlands, January 25, 1976, pp. 12-14.

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