John G. Sweetser Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire 
From: Claudia Menzel - menzel99@gateway.net 

Surname: SWEETSER
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

Page 802

   JOHN G. SWEETSER, who is carrying on a prosperous business al
No. 126-128 Market street, Portsmouth, N. H., as plumber, dealer in
heating apparatus, ranges and kitchen furnishings, was born in Ports-
mouth, N. H., February 12, 1875. His father, John P. Sweetser, a na-

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tive of this city, carried on the same line of business here for thirty-
five years. He was a son of Washington and Matilda (Lane) Sweetser
of New Hampshire, Washington Sweetser being a harness maker and
trunk dealer. John P. Sweetser married first Myra Hayes, of Ports-
mouth, Mass., and by her had four children--Ralph H., Katharine, Myra
(now deceased), and John G., the subject of this sketch. She died in
1882 and he married for his second wife Ida C. Caswell, a daughter of
John W. Caswell. Born of this second union were two children--Geral-
dine, now deceased, and Harold C.
   John G. Sweetser was educated in the public schools of Portsmouth,
graduating from the high school in 1892. He began industrial life as an
employe of the Maryland Iron and Steel Company, remaining with them
one year. Then returning to Portsmouth, he attended Tilton Seminary
for awhile, after which he worked for two years in his father's store.
He then began an apprenticeship to the plumber's trade, which, having
learned, he followed until 1908, during that time spending one year in
Tennessee on contract. He then worked for his father two years at
plumbing and heating, subsequent to which he went to Ste. Marie,
Ontario, Canada, where he remained one year, having charge of the
plumbing and heating department of the More & Brown hardware firm.
Coming back to Portsmouth in the fall of 1907, he worked for his father
until the spring of 1908, at which time he purchased the business, which
was one of the oldest in Portsmouth, having been founded as far back
as 1824. He established himself in his present location April 1, 1911,
and is doing an excellent business, giving employment to about ten
men. He has served the city two terms as inspector of plumbing. He
belongs to the Portsmouth Athletic Club, the Portsmouth Country
Club, St. John's Lodge, A. F. & A. M., and to the Benevolent Protective
Order of Elks.
   Mr. Sweetser married Mabel Jones, a native of Portsmouth and
daughter of George N. and Clara (Clifford) Jones, whose father has
been engineer on the Portsmouth fire department for a number of
years. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Jones are: Fred N., Reginald,
Mrs. Anna L. Fay, Emma, Ethel, Coleman, and Mabel (Mrs. Sweet-
ser). Born to Mr. and Mrs. Sweetser have been two children--Robert
Coolidge and John Clifford. The family attends the North Congrega-
tional church. Their residence is at No. 99 Broad street.

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