SWAN. SWEETSER. 58 9 SWAN, James Caleb, son of Caleb and Ruth (Barrel!) Swan, was born in Eas- ton, Bristol county, June 2, 182S. He attended the public schools until he was fourteen years of age, and then went to the academy at North Attleborough for three years, after which he began to study medicine under his father, when he was seventeen years old, and was with him for live years, attending two courses of lec- tures at the medical department of Har- vard University, and two courses at the Jefferson Medical School in Philadelphia. He then settled in West Bridgewater, where he is practicing medicine at the present time. He is president of the Plym- outh Agricultural Society. In Easton, on the 7th of June, 1850, Dr. Swan married Harriet Allen, daughter of Hiram and Lurana Copeland. Their chil- dren are : Caleb, Justice S., and Ruth B. Swan. His wife died December 7, 18S0 ; and February 6, 1883, he married Ada E., daughter of Calvin E. and Elizabeth Her- vey, of Belfast, Maine. SWEET, ANDREW H., son of Joseph IX and Abby A. (Hodges) Sweet, was born in Norton, Bristol county, October 2, 1845. He received a common school education, supplemented by a short attendance in private schools. His business career began as that of a retail grocer under the firm name of Sweet & Carpenter. He after- wards went into the manufacture of fric- tion matches, at Norton, under the firm name of Messinger & Sweet. This busi- ness was sold to the Diamond Match Com- pany, and he started alone in the manufac- ture of wood and paper boxes, and snow shovels. After selling out to the Diamond Match Company, he was manager of their Boston store and card mill at Damariscotta Mills, Me., for three years. Mr. Sweet was married in Norton, June 8, 1870, to Mary E., daughter of Austin and Salina A. F. (Alden) Messinger. Of this union is one child : Austin M. Sweet. Mr. Sweet was a representative to the General Court from Norton in 1873. He has been selectman, assessor, and overseer of the poor. Mr Sweet is a self-made man, and his success in life can readily be attributed to his habits of industry, frugal economy, and a strict adherence to temperance principles. SWEETSER, MOSES FOSTER, son of Moses and Elizabeth Dean (Foster) Sweet- ser, was born in Newburyport, Essex county, September 22, 1848. He is descended from the Sweetsers of Hertfordshire, Eng- land, whose records run back to the Ref- ormation. In 1637 Seth Sweetser crossed the ocean and settled in Charlestown (now Boston), and his posterity included many true Puritan soldiers. During the war of the rebellion several members of the family held military commands. Moses Sweetser, a friend of Sumner and Wilson, has dwelt for twenty-five years in West Virginia, and is one well-known and respected through- out the Ohio Valley. In i86i-'64 Mr. Sweetser dwelt at Fair- fax Court House, in northern Virginia, where he witnessed many exciting scenes of the war, and was finally sent North to the Highland Military School. He also studied MOSES F. SWEETSER. at Dummer Academy, and in 1S67 gradu- ated from the Putnam Free School, at New- buryport. His classical studies were car- ried on at Beloit College, Wisconsin, and Columbian College, Washington. In 1870 he crossed the ocean, and spent nearly two years in Great Britain, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Egypt, Palestine, Turkey, and Greece, observing the Franco-Prussian war, the Commune, and the Italian siege of Rome. Returning, he prepared four guide- books, on the Baedeker plan : " New Eng- land " (1873), " The Middle States " (1874), "The White Mountains" (1875), and "The Maritime Provinces " (1876). He has also
