Built the A. H. SWEET RESIDENCE at 435 W. Spruce St in 1914.
ADELBERT HIRAM SWFET CAME TO SAN DIEGO IN JULY 1 885 -t (l) AS A, YOUNG ATTORNEY WITH HIS BRIDE, LEONA. THEY CAME BECAUSE OF THE CLAIM OF THE U MOST SALUBRIOUS CLIMATE". LEONA HAD CONTRACTED TUBERCULOSIS AND THEY HOPE THAT THE CITY'S PUBLICIZED HEALTH-GIVING WEATHER WOULD RESTORE HE,R TO HEALTH. APPARENTLY, HER CONDITION WAS TOO ADVANCED FOR SHE DIED NINE MONTHS LATER. AFTER LEONA'S DEATH, SWEET REMAINED IN SAN DIEGO AND UNTIL HIS DEATH IN 1924, HE INFLUENCED THE JUDICIAL GROWTH OF SAN DIEGO. BORN IN 1857 - (2) IN A LOG CABIN IN OHIO, HE GRADUATED FROM BALDWIN COLLEGE IN BEREA, OHIO, AND TOOK HIS LAW DEGREE FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN IN 1883. HE PASSED THE KANSAS BAR IN 1884. FROM 1885 TO 1896, SWEET PRACTICED LAW - (3) ALONE AND IN PARTNERSHIPS WITH A. C. YOUNKIN AND THEN W. A. SLOANE AND L. R. KIRBY. IN 1894,HE MARRIED THE SHERMAN SCHOOL PRINCIPAL, AMY WHATMORE - (4) WHO HAD COME TO SAN DIEGO IN 1888. IN 1894 SWEET WAS APPOINTED A UNITED STATES COMMISSIONER (5), AN OFFICE HE HELD UNTIL 1896. SWEET BECAME SAN DIEGO COUNTY ATTORNEY IN ONE OF THE CITY'S MORE UNUSUAL APPOINTMENTS. WILLIAM DARBY WAS ELECTED TO SUCCEED MARTIN LUTHER WARD AS DISTRICT ATTORNEY IN 1894. THREE WEEKS BEFORE HE WAS TO TAKE THE OATH OF OFFICE, DARBY COMMITTED SUICIDE. THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS CONCLUDED THAT DARBY WAS AN INCUMBENT„FOR HE HAD ALREADY POSTED HIS BOND (6) SO THEY APPOINTED WARD TO SUCCEED'HIMSELF. THIS WAS OVERTURNED BY THE
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