. History of Sonoma County, California, with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county, who have been identified with its growth and development from the early days to the present time. y to testify, not only to his ability asan educator, but to his .life of industry, integrity and morality. His is a life ofcontinual activity, and now he is publishing a line of commercial college textbooks of which he is the author, and which are used in hundreds of the businesscolleges of the United States and Canada. These books, consisting of texts onbookkeeping, arithmetic, business
. History of Sonoma County, California, with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county, who have been identified with its growth and development from the early days to the present time. y to testify, not only to his ability asan educator, but to his .life of industry, integrity and morality. His is a life ofcontinual activity, and now he is publishing a line of commercial college textbooks of which he is the author, and which are used in hundreds of the businesscolleges of the United States and Canada. These books, consisting of texts onbookkeeping, arithmetic, business correspondence and spelling, are unique, andthoroughly illustrate the individual methods that have made Mr. Sweets educa-tional career so successful. In his political sympathies Mr. Sweet has always espoused Democratic prin-ciples, although he never has sought or desired official position. However, in1898, he was nominated and elected mayor of the city of Santa Rosa. His firstterm was so satisfactory that he was again elected for a second term in the latter year he was also a delegate to the National Democratic con-vention held in Kansas City, when William Jennings Bryan was for the second. <* ~^L**i^_ HISTORY OF SONOMA COUNTY 779 time nominated for president of the United States of America. Fraternally is a charter member of Santa Rosa Lodge, No. 646, of the Benevolentand Protective Order of Elks. Mr. Sweet is compiling a genealogical history of the Sweet Family inAmerica which he expects to have ready for publication in the near work will be the crowning effort of his life and will undoubtedly be aninvaluable record of the members of this pioneer family, whose long line of pos-terity is one of unbroken family pride. WILLIAM E. SMITH. Family traditions indicate the colonial settlement of the branch of the Smithfamily represented by this resourceful farmer of Sonoma county, who him-self owns Missouri as his native commonwealth and Ohio as the
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