Bridwell Library, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University.

William Henry Sweet was born on July 14, 1843 in Brown County, Ohio to Benjamin F. and Jane Robinson Sweet. He studied at Goshen Academy, 1865-1866; South West Normal (Lebanon, Ohio), 1866-1867; and Ohio Wesleyan University, A.B. 1872 and A.M. 1875. Chaddock College in Quincy, Illinois granted Sweet an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree in 1885.

In 1875, Rev. Sweet married Rose A. Williams, a graduate of the Ohio Wesleyan Female College, class of 1871. They raised five children. One son, William Warren Sweet, became a Methodist minister and noted church historian.

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