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Note: s Associate’s degree from the Stockbridge School of Agriculture (UMass-Amherst) in 1933. He returned to Malden after graduating and worked as a butcher in his father’s store, Swanson’s Market, while he married and started a family. With the onset of WWII, he found himself drafted into the U.S. Navy (1944) and served stateside, serving as an aviation instructor in New York and New Jersey before his honorably discharge in 1946.
After the war, Milton purchased the Wayside Country Store in Marlborough MA, after competing in and winning a nationwide contest put on by Henry Ford (of Ford Motors, and no relation to his wife) for essays on the subject of why you’d like to run a country store. They operated the store until 1971, along with the Bearskin Neck County Store (Rockport MA, 1956-68) and the Hamilton County Store (Hamilton MA, 1958-1960). They were also among the first American couples to adopt from Hong Kong in the late 1960s. Selling the store in 1971, the family moved to Newburyport, where Milton continued to work, running Swanson’s Butter Products in Salisbury MA for a time before retiring to the beach at York.
Milton was a well-read man and an avid collector of memorabilia, collectables, and historical oddities. He was active into his late 80s until a stroke felled him, and spent his final few years in a nursing home.
Note: Born and raised in Malden, Milton was educated in the Malden public schools and received hi
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