Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 1885,
Muhlenberg Co.

EDWARD SWEATT, M.D., Muhlenburgh [sic] County, was born in Butler County, 
Ky., February 28, 1854, and is a son of William and Elizabeth Sweatt, the
former of whom was a native of North Carolina and the latter of Tennessee,
both of English-German and Irish descent.  When a lad of some ten years old,
William Sweatt removed with his parents to Tennessee, where he was educated
and married, and where he was engaged in farming for several years.  In about
1843, he removed to Butler County, Ky., were he resided until his death, which
occurred April 30, 1861, in his fiftieth year.  He enlisted in the war with
Mexico, but the war closed before he reached the field.  He and wife were
members of the Disciple Church.  His father, George Sweatt, the grandfather of
our subject, was a veteran of the war of 1812.  Dr. Edward Sweat received a
good common school and academic education in youth, and was employed on his
father's farm until he was seventeen years old, after which he was engaged in
teaching and attending school until he was twenty-three.  He then commenced
the study of medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. J.F. Strother, of
Rochester, Ky.  He attended lectures at the Louisville Medical College of
Louisville, and also at the Hospital Medical College of the same city,
graduating with high honors from the latter institution in 1882.  He practiced
for a short time before graduation in Butler County, and in May, 1882, located
at Paradise, Muhlenburgh County, where he has since practiced his profession
with excellent success, having secured a large and lucrative practice.  He was
first married February 6, 1873, to Martha E. Tanner, a native of Butler
County, Ky.  Two children - one son and one daughter - were the fruit of this
union.  Mrs. Martha E. Sweatt departed this life September 18, 1876.  She was
a devoted and consistent member of the Methodist Protestant Church.  The
Doctor next married November 7, 1883, to Charlena K. Strum, a native of Ohio
County, Ky.  One son, Charles E., has blessed their union.  Mrs. Sweatt is a
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.  The Doctor belongs to no
church, but is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and is J. W. elect of his
lodge, viz.: Paradise Lodge No. 312.  In politics he is a Democrat.

Sweatt Strother Tanner Strum
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Butler NC TN Ohio

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