| Helen Swift Neilson | |
| Birth Date: | 1869 |
| Birth Place: | Barnstable, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Death Date: | 18 June 1945 (aged 76) |
| Death Place: | Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Family: | Ira Nelson Morris (brother-in-law) Nelson Morris (father-in-law) |
| Spouse: | Edward Morris (spouse) Francis Neilson |
| Children: | Edward Morris, Jr. Nelson Morris Ruth Morris Bakwin Muriel Morris Gardiner Buttinger |
| Father: | Gustavus Franklin Swift |
Helen Swift Neilson (1869 – 18 June 1945) was an American writer and art collector.
Neilson was the daughter of Annie Maria (née Higgins) and Gustavus Franklin Swift, founder of the meatpacking company Swift & Co. Her first husband was Edward Morris, son of Nelson Morris, the founder of Morris & Company, a competitor to her father. They had four children: Edward Morris, Jr., Nelson Swift Morris, Ruth Morris Bakwin, and Muriel Morris Gardiner Buttinger.[1] [2] In 1913, her husband died, and in 1917, she married British politician and writer Francis Neilson, with whom she founded the weekly paper The Freeman in 1920.[3]
She is perhaps best known for her book about her parents, titled My Father and My Mother.[4]
Neilson died in Chicago, Illinois. She bequeathed several notable paintings to the Metropolitan Museum of Art: