Sweet, Daniel

Born: 1809-06-19 Otsego County, New York

Died: 1861-07-XX

Flourished: 1837-1850 Sangamon County, Illinois

Daniel, a son of Robert Sweet, grew up in New York, where he married Elcey Sweet. They accompanied Daniel's family to the Loami area of western Sangamon County, Illinois, in 1837. Elcey died in 1849. In 1850, Daniel lived in the household of his brother Jonathan in Winchester, Illinois, where they were brickmakers.

John Carroll Power and S. A. Power, History of the Early Settlers of Sangamon County, Illinois (Springfield, IL: Edwin A. Wilson, 1876), 698; U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Scott County, IL, 100.