| LC control no. | no2017128128 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Sweetser, Lewis Hobart, 1868-1944 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | New Haven (Conn.) Cassia County (Idaho) |
| Birth date | 1868-01-13 |
| Death date | 1944-06-09 |
| Place of birth | San Francisco (Calif.) |
| Field of activity | Gold dredging Spiritualism Idaho--Politics and government |
| Profession or occupation | Gold miners Spiritualists Lieutenant governors |
| Found in | 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) |
| Associated language | eng |
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