Monroe County WI Archives Biographies.....Sweet, W. A.  December 18, 1842 - 
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W. A. SWEET, wagon-maker and wheelwright, Midway; was born in Walworth Co., 
Wis., Dec. 18, 1842; his parents were natives of New York. When he was two 
years of age he went to live with an uncle; he learned his trade in Oshkosh; 
enlisted in Co. B, 14th W. V. I., 1861; mustered out, Oct. 9, 1865. After 
coming out of the army, he remained in Mobile, Ala., one year, then returned 
to Oshkosh, Wis., then to La Crosse in 1869; worked for Smith & Mirrill, 
removed to Midway in 1880, now doing a fine business. His first wife, Mary Van 
Owen, was a native of Holland, who died April, 1872; they had one child - 
Charles. His second wife, Lottie Shafer, was a native of Wisconsin, born at 
Sparta, and married in 1876; no children. A member of the Sons of Temperance.

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From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 818.

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