Sacramento County
Biographies
ARTHUR
WALTER SWEET
ARTHUR WALTER SWEET.--Now well-established as a contractor for up-to-date plumbing and heating, Arthur Walter Sweet of North Sacramento is able to exert an enviable influence in favor of those better things in installation and appointment that mark the degree of civilization in any community, and that have so much to do with the comfort, health and the happiness of people. The capital city may well be congratulated, therefore, on the acquisition of this progressive and far-sighted Rhode Island Yankee, for he was born at Pawtucket, on September 24, 1883, when he entered the family of Joseph and Mary (LaDue) Sweet, substantial weaver folks connected with the woolen mils there, where they are still residing.
Arthur Walter Sweet attended the public schools of the home town, and then learned the machinist trade, which he followed for two years; and in 1903 he came West, and soon luckily located at Sacramento. He entered the water service department of the Southern Pacific, and after four years, he was in business at Roseville for a couple of years. Coming back to Sacramento, he worked for the Pacific Gas & Electric Company for three and one-half years; and in 1914 he established himself in business at North Sacramento. He is doing all the work, and the business has grown, until today he is consuming $7,000 of material a month. During the year 1922 he continuously employed six journeymen plumbers. He belongs to the Builders’ Exchange and the Master Plumbers’ Association, and favors the Republican platforms, because he believes that they favor American industry.
In the year 1908, on January 26, Mr. Sweet and Miss Myrtle Alice White, a native daughter of Tehama County, were married, and they have a family of four children. Reginald Arthur is the eldest; Hazel Estelle and Wilma May the second and third born; and Victor, the youngest. Mr. Sweet is also an Elk and belongs to Sacramento Lodge No. 6.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With
Biographical Sketches, Page 952.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.