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Carl Anton Swanson (May 1, 1879 – October 9, 1949) was a Swedish-American businessman, who was the founder of the U.S. national food production company Swanson. Background [ edit ]
Swanson chicken pot pie. Carl A. Swanson (1879–1949) was a Swedish immigrant who worked on a farm in Blair, Nebraska, until he moved to Omaha.There, he worked in a grocery store where he came into contact with John O. Jerpe, who owned a small commission company, in which Swanson would become a partner in 1899. [1]
According to History.com, she is the developer of the concept, [6] and the first completed product was a dinner consisting of cornbread dressing, sweet potatoes, peas, and turkey. [7] [8] She also developed Swanson’s first fried chicken TV dinner, which she said in a 1989 interview was the biggest challenge of her time with C. A. Swanson and ...
1950s: Swanson TV Dinners. Although TV dinners first came about in 1945 when Maxson Food Systems, Inc. manufactured them for military and civilian airplane passengers, they didn't become prominent ...
In 1979, Carlson married Patricia Caroline Swanson, an heiress to the Swanson frozen-food fortune. Swanson was the daughter of Gilbert Carl Swanson , and the niece of Senator J. William Fulbright . [ 32 ] [ 33 ] This was the third marriage for Swanson, who legally adopted Tucker Carlson and his brother.
The Swansons changed their company name in 1954 to avoid trademark confusion with C.A. Swanson and Sons, which had just begun the national roll-out of their frozen meal line. Archway was chosen for the company's new name, taking its name from the arch motif featured as a part of the original Swanson cookie packaging.
Bryan Swanson (born 1980), British sports television reporter; Carl A. Swanson (1879–1949), Swedish-American food industry businessman and founder of Swanson; Charles Edward Swanson (1879–1970), American politician; Claude A. Swanson (1862–1939), American lawyer and politician; David Swanson, American journalist and Democratic activist
When McKee Foods decided to start selling family packs of their bakery's snack cakes, there was just one problem: They needed a catchy name. The founder's 4-year-old granddaughter, Debbie, proved ...