Swett family collection

Collection

Identifier: Coll. 4224

Staff Only

Scope and Content note

Letters, documents, and photographs, as well as photocopies of letters, photographs, certificate. Includes volume (spiral bound) compiled by Elena L. Swett McHerron and Judith Ann McHerron in 2003 of photocopies of the letters by Henry Augustus Swett, and related material.

Dates

1852 - 2002
Majority of material found within 1852 - 1864

Creator

Swett, Henry Augustus, 1841-1924 (Person)

Access

Unrestricted.

Copyright

Access to collections at Maine Historical Society is not an authorization to publish. Rights and reproduction requests may be submitted in writing to the MHS Image Services Coordinator or Research & Administrative Librarian, subject to format.

Biographical note

Noah Swett was born July 19, 1805, in Hampden, Maine, the son of Benjamin Swett and Mehitable Atwood. He married Nancy Rice Wheeler March 9, 1835, in Hampden. She was born August 16, 1805, in Hampden, daughter of Daniel Wheeler. Soon after they were married, Noah and Nancy Swett removed to Garland, Maine, where they lived for many years. They had six children. Noah died September 8, 1873, and Nancy died August 11, 1905, in Auburn, Me., five days short of her 100th birthday. Noah and Nancy Swett and their daughter Mary Abbie Swett are bured in Oak Hill Cemetery, Auburn, Me.

Noah and Nancy's children are:

1. Philander Wheeler Swett was born November 29, 1835, and died December 24, 1892, in Portland, Oregon.
2. Henry Augustus Swett was born January 20, 1841, and lived in Gloucester, Massachusetts. He died in 1924. Henry served 1862-1864 in Co. D of the 20th Maine.
3. Frances E. Swett was born 1839, lived in Auburn, and was unmarried.
4. Sarah Curtis Swett was born November 7, 1843, lived in Auburn, and was unmarried.
5. Mary Abbie Swett was born May 31, 1845, married Dr. Elisha Coan, and died April 10, 1938.
6. Georgianna Swett was born 1849, lived in Auburn, and was unmarried.

Catherine Rice (1765-1864) married Jonathan Haskins of Hampden, Maine. Jonathan's diary is at MHS (Coll. 1549). Catherine was the great, great grandmother of Henry Augustus Swett: Catherine (Rice) Haskins, Fannie (Haskins) Wheeler (b. 1783), Nancy (Wheeler) Swett (1805-1905), and Henry A. Swett.

Source: Sweat and Swett Families of Cape Cod