Hardress Nathaniel Swaim [SEP] occupation
Hardress Nathaniel Swaim
Hardress Nathaniel Swaim (November 30, 1890 – July 30, 1957) was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana and later a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
Education and career.
Born in Zionsville, Indiana, Swaim received an Artium Baccalaureus degree from DePauw University in 1913 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Chicago Law School in 1916. He was in private practice in Indianapolis, Indiana from 1916 to 1939, interrupted by service
published a report strongly refuting Swaim's laudatory claims and previous endorsements of the popular panacea, as had the New York Medical Society. Respected physicians who had endorsed the product as promising in the beginning, such as Nathaniel Chapman who later founded the American Medical Association, disavowed their early approvals. Despite Swaim's claim that the product contained no mercury, the medical reports showed otherwise.
After William Swaim died in 1846, his son James continued the business until his death in 1870, along with Swaim's son-in-