Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2010,
                              All Rights Reserved
                             U.S. Data Repository


        Please read U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on this page:
                     <http://www.us-data.org/fineprint.html>


History of Manistee, Mason and Oceana counties, Michigan
with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of
Its Prominent Men and Pioneers

Published by H. R. Page & Co., Chicago, IL, 1882

Transcribed by Linda Talbott

==========================================================================
Page 148
SWEET, Joseph W.
==========================================================================
Joseph W. Sweet, farmer, Section 25, was born in Oswego, N.Y., August 4,
1817; came into this state in 1842, settling in Wheatland, Hillsdale Co.
From 1842 to 1849, owing to ill-health, he was obliged to return to New
York State three times. In the Autumn of 1849 he removed to Allendale,
Ottawa Co., where he resided until 1855, when he removed to Grand Haven.
In April, 1858, he came up to White River and purchased 120 acres of land
upon a portion of the plat on which Hesperia now stands.  In 1860 he
purchased his present location, where he has since resided.  December 1,
1876, his dwelling-house and contents were totally destroyed by fire,
during the absence of himself and family.  On one of his trips west he was
shipwrecked on Lake Erie, drifting ashore twenty-one miles west of
Buffalo, losing all his personal property, and one child, drowned.  He
married, March 21, 1841, Betsey Jerrells, of Fairport, Monroe Co., N.Y.,
and they have had eight children -- Carlistia M., Sarah L., Louisa, Sarah,
Minnie S., Chester A., Alice A. and Catherine M. -- of whom Sarah died at
the age of two months, Catherine M., aged fifteen days, Alice A., aged
five years and six months, and Minnie S., aged thirty years.
==========================================================================