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Swearingen, Henry – Sweetser, Moses Foster

Swearingen, Henry

congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from Ohio from 1839 to 1841.

Swearingen, Thomas V

congressman, was born in Jefferson county, Virginia. He was elected a representative in congress from Virginia from 1819 to 1822, when he died in Virginia.

Sweeney, W. N

lawyer, congressman, was born May 5, 1832, in Kentucky. In 1868 he was elected a representative from Kentucky to the forty-first congress.

Sweeny, George

congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from Ohio from 1839 to 1843.

Sweet, Alexander Edwin

soldier, journalist, author, was born March 28, 1841, in St. John, N. B. He is a Texas journalist who served in the confederate army, and is the author of Three Dozen Good Stories from Texas Siftings.

Sweet, Benjamin Jeffrey

soldier, was born April 24, 1832, in Kirkland, N. Y. He served with distinction through the civil war, and attained the rank of brigadier-general. He died Jan. 1, 1874, in Washington, D. C.

Sweet, Elnathan

civil engineer, author, was born Nov. 20, 1837, in Cheshire, Mass. In 1876-80 he was division engineer of New York state canals, and he was elected state engineer in 1883, which office he held for four years from Jan. 1, 1884. His writings include annual reports that he issued from Albany during the years he held office, and various technical papers.

Sweet, Homer De Lois

civil engineer, author, was born Jan. 24, 1826, in Pompey, N. Y. He is a civil engineer of Syracuse, and the author of The Averys of Groton, a genealogy; and Twilight Hours in the Adirondacks.

Sweet, Willis

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Jan. 1, 1856, in Alburg Springs, Vt. He was appointed United States attorney for Idaho in 1888, and was appointed associate justice of the supreme court of Idaho in 1889, which position he held until the admission of Idaho into the union. He was elected to the unexpired term of the fifty-first congress, and re-elected to the fifty-second and fifty-third congresses as a republican.

Sweetser, Charles

congressman, was born in Vermont. He was a representative in congress from Ohio, from 1849 to 1853.

SWEETSER, CHARLES HUMPHREYS, journalist, author, was born Aug. 25, 1841, in Athol, Mass. He was a journalist of New York city and subsequently of Chicago. He was the author of Songs of Amherst; History of Amherst College; and Tourist's and Invalid's Guide to the Northwest. He died Jan. 1, 1871, in Palatka, Fla.

Sweetser, Henry Edward

journalist, was born Feb. 19, 1837, in New York city. In 1860 he was made night editor of the World, and in 1863 he founded, with his brother, Charles H. Sweetser, the Round Table, from which he withdrew in 1866, and, after a short visit to Europe, returned to New York and engaged in editorial work until his death. He died Feb. 17, 1870, in New York city.

Sweetser, Moses Foster

author, was born Sept. 22, 1848, in Newburyport, Mass. He was a Boston writer who has published Europe for Two Dollars a Day; Artist Biographies; Summer Days Down East; Guide-Books to New England, the Middle States, the White Mountains, and the Maritime Provinces; and In Distance and in Dream, a story. He died in 1897.