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Edward D. Swift

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The astronomical collaboration between Edward and his father began with the inauguration of a newly built observatory including a sixteen-inch refracting telescope in 1883. In the following years, many of Lewis Swift's publications are brief references to Edward. Most notably, Edward discovered 25
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and born during his father's second marriage to Caroline Doane Topping. At the age of almost two years, his family moved to
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Edward D. Swift was the youngest son of the astronomer
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