Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Sweet, Burton J. July 20, 1836 - 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Sweet, Burton J., Norway, was born in Norway July 20, 1836.  He is a son of 
Jesse Sweet, a son of Wanton Sweet, a native of Rhode Island, born October 6, 
1776.  When a young man Wanton Sweet came to Salisbury and there in 1800 
married Olive Carr of Salisbury, born 1783.  They reared twelve children.  Mr. 
Sweet died February 2, 1850, and his wife died October 1, 1856.  Jesse Sweet 
was born in Salisbury in 1802.  March 10, 1831, he married Elizabeth Potter 
and had four children.  While on a journey to the west looking for land he 
died in Ohio in 1837.  Burton J. Sweet was educated in the common and select 
schools.  He now owns the farm on which he was born.  In 1871 he married Emily 
M. Crain of Evans Mills, Jefferson county, born 1843.  Their children are Ward 
B., Arthur H., Bertha E., Jessie V. and Annie M.  Mr. Sweet is a 
Prohibitionist.  He has been highway commissioner three years and a member of 
Norway Grange 568.  Mrs.Sweet is a Baptist.  The parents of Mrs. Sweet were 
Isaac and Mertilla (Root) Crain.  Mr. Crain died March 11, 1888, and Mrs. 
Crain died February, 1883.

Additional Comments:
source:
History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of 
its citizens
edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard
Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893
550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports.


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