Sweetser, Lewis Hobart, 1868-1944
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Birth Date
- 1868-01-13
Death Date
- 1944-06-09
Birth Place
- San Francisco (Calif.)
Associated Language
- English
Field of Activity
(lcsh) Idaho--Politics and government
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Sources
- found: Lewis H. Sweetser papers, 1915-1930(Lewis Hobart Sweetser was born in San Francisco, California on January 13, 1868. He received a doctoral degree from Yale in 1889. In 1891, he purchased Bar Y Ranch in Cassia County, Idaho with Harry & George Burroughs, his lifelong friends and partners. The partners also had a gold dredging operation, Sweetser-Burrough Mining Company, that ran on the Snake River for about 10 years. They were later involved in spiritualism in an attempt to contact their deceased wives. Sweetser was a Republican and served as Lieutenant Governor of Idaho, 1909-1913. Lewis H. Sweetser died June 9, 1944, one day after his friend, George Burroughs)
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- 2017-10-02: new
- 2017-10-03: revised
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