Berrien-Pierce-Polk County GaArchives Biographies.....Sweat, Albert C. 1871 - living in 1913 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 October 19, 2004, 10:16 pm Author: William Harden p. 823-824 ALBERT C. SWEAT. One of the ablest newspaper editors and managers in south Georgia is the present proprietor of the Nashville Herald. Mr. Sweat has been identified with the newspaper business nearly all his life, learning the art of sticking type when he was a boy, and through his own efforts and ability rising from the case to the chair of editor and owner. He was born in Pierce county, this state, on the 7th of March, 1871. His only sister, Sally, the wife of J. A. Wade of Douglas, Georgia. Owing to circumstances, Albert C. began earning his own way when a boy fifteen years of age, and his subsequent prosperity and influential position have been the result of his own endeavors. He first learned telegraphy, but was too young to be accepted as an operator, and for this reason he turned from what might have been a life vocation to employment in the office of the Blackshear Georgian, a weekly paper. There he learned the use of the composing stick, and in 1889, at the age of eighteen, became foreman for the Douglas Breeze, the first newspaper ever issued in Douglas. In a short time he became manager and editor of this paper and conducted it for six years. He also edited the Jesup Sentinel one year for Capt. Ben Miliken. Mr. Sweat then went to Texas and in 1899, with two associates, established a daily paper, the Morning Sun, at Denison. After a year he sold his interest in that publication, and, returning to Georgia, was engaged in publishing the Sparks Enterprise in Berrien county until December, 1903. At that date he removed his plant to Nashville and established the Herald, of which he is the sole owner, and which he has made successful as a business enterprise and influential among a large circle of readers. In 1912, Mr. Sweat erected at Nashville what is known as the Herald building, the first three-story structure in town. The two upper floors are used as an opera house, and the first floor is the home of the Herald and its job printing establishment. This handsome brick building, occupying ground thirty-three by ninety feet, is a credit to the enterprise of its builder and to the growing importance of Nashville as a center of population and commerce. In Berrien county and elsewhere Mr. Sweat has always been an active and useful citizen. He is chairman of the board of county commissioners, is the present city clerk of Nashville, and has served in the city council and on the school board. He is also chairman of the Democratic executive committee of Berrien county. Fraternally he affiliates with Nashville Lodge No. 243, F. & A. M., the lodges of Woodmen of the World, Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias, at Nashville, and the Tifton lodge of Elks. In April, 1891, he married Miss Annie Glover. Mrs. Sweat is a native of Polk county, this state. They are the parents of four children, named Hoke, Glyds, Kate and Clifford. Mr. and Mrs. Sweat are members of the Methodist church at Nashville. Additional Comments: From: A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA BY WILLIAM HARDEN VOLUME II ILLUSTRATED THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY CHICAGO AND NEW YORK 1913 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/berrien/bios/gbs339sweat.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 3.7 Kb