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Transcription contributed by Martie Callihan 10 October 2005 |
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The History of Warren County Ohio Part V. Biographical Sketches Wayne Township (Chicago, IL: W. H. Beers Co, 1882; reprint, Mt. Vernon, IN: Windmill Publications, 1992) |
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DREW SWEET, editor Miami Gazette, Waynesville; born in Tyrandreath, Cornwall, England, Feb. 24, 1839; emigrated to the United States in the fall of 1851, with his mother and sister, and with them settled in Waynesville, in December, of the same year. The sister, Anne Drew, died in the March following, in a house which stood where now the Episcopal Church stands; her age was nearly 15 years. Thomisine Sweet, the mother (whose maiden name |
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was Kingdon), married James Sweet, who died in Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies, in 1843, he being at the time engaged as Inspector of Mt. Vernon Mine in that island. The youngest child of this marriage, Kingdon Drew, died at the age of 5 years at the place of his birth. The only remaining offspring, Drew Sweet, the subject of this sketch, has been, since 1865, the founder and editor of the village paper of Waynesville, the Miami Gazette, and had previously been joint publisher of the Miami Visitor of Waynesville, and the Herald of Astoria, Long Island. Of the Drew and Kingdon antecedents, both belonging to Mrs. Sweet's maternal side, we quote from Chambers' Encyclopedia "Drew, Samuel, 1763—1833—a native of Cornwall, England. In 1799, published some 'Remarks on Tom Payne's Age of Reason.' This was followed by 'Remarks on Payne; Essay on the Immateriality and Immortality of the Soul; Essay on the Identity and General Resurrection of the Human Body;' a 'History of Cornwall," and 'An Attempt to Demonstrate from Reason and Revelation the Necessary Existence, Essential, Perfection and Superintending, Providence of an Eternal Being, Who is the Creator, the Supporter and the Governor of all Things.'" The founder of the Kingdon family "came over with William." Loyson's History of Cornwall, speaks of the family thus: "Kingdon, of Trehunsey, in Quithock and Trenouth, in St. Cleer, an ancient family, the present representative of which is William Kingdon, Esq., of St Cleer. There are several clergy in the northern part of the county descended from a younger branch of this family, settled in Devon. Arms of Kingdon: Arg., a chevron sable, between three magpies proper." Drew Sweet was married, July 2,1874, to Mary Agnes Kearney. Of this union, two daughters were born—Anne Kearney, May 29, 1875, and Sophie Kingdon, born Dec. 31, 1877; died Aug. 13, 1878. |
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