Biography of Clarence B. Sweet - Mercer Co. WV

The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume II,
Pg. 401 

CLARENCE B. SWEET.  West Virginia is still one of the important states in
the production of hardwood lumber.  One of the important organizations
manufacturing and marketing hardwood products is the National Lumber
Company, with headquarters at Bluefield.  The company was organized in
1908, and does an exclusive business in hardwood.  The output of the
various mills owned or under contract with this corporation is marketed all
over the Northern states, from the Ohio to the Mississippi, and normally
there is an extensive export trade with European countries.

The president of this company is Clarence B. Sweet, who for many years has
been identified with the lumber industry.  He was born at Bristol,
Virginia, September 7, 1883, son of Thomas E. A. Sweet.  His mother was a
Miss Millard.  Both parents were born in Virginia, and the mother is still
living at the age of sixty-one.  Thomas Sweet, who died in 1912, at the age
of fifty-eight, was prominent in Masonry, being a past master and past
eminent commander of the Knights Templars, and member of the Shrine.

Clarence B. Sweet, one of three children, finished his academic education
in Milligan's College, and for a time was employed as a bookkeeper in the
King's Printing Company at Bristol.  While at Bristol he entered the
service of the Bryant Lumber Company, and subsequently he was at Kansas
City, Missouri, with the Foster Lumber Company, and at Toledo, Ohio, as
assistant sales manager for the big A Hardwood Company.  Mr. Sweet came to
Bluefield in 1910 as manager of the National Lumber Company, and since 1919
has been president of the corporation.  He is a member of the National
Hardwood Association, and has been deeply interested in the civic affairs
and progress of Bluefield during his residence here.  He is a member of the
Chamber of Commerce, the Kiwanis Club, the Country Club and the Masonic
Order.  His religious affiliation is with the Christian Church, while Mrs.
Sweet belongs to the Presbyterian denomination.

In 1915 he married Virginia Bedinger, daughter of Everett W. Bedinger, of
Louisville, Kentucky.  Mr. and Mrs. Sweet have two children, Laura A. and
Virginia B.


Submitted by Linda Katalenich <KatalenL@stratcom.mil>

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