This is from "History of Walworth County Wisconsin" Chicago: Western Historical Company, p. 517. Rev. Sylvester E. Sweet, Pastor of the Regular Baptist Church of Elkhorn since November 1879. He is a native of Leeds Co., Canada West; is a son of Abijah and Maria (Rhodes) Sweet; was born Nov. 18, 1838. In 1845, he came to the United States with his parents, and made his home at Southport, Wis.; two years later, they moved to Portland, Dodge Co., and in 1854, to the town of Bear Creek, Sauk Co. He enlisted, in June 1861, in the 6th Battery, Wisconsin Light Artillery; was promoted to a Second Lieutenancy; was with his command in the various engagements in which they participated nine in all; he received a gunshot wound in the head at the battle of Champion Hills, June, 1863, and served until the close of the war. He was educated in a common school and at the Wayland University, at Beaver Dam., Wis. from which he graduated in the class of 1872. He was regularly ordained a minister of the Regular Baptist Church at Marble Ridge, Sauk Co., and began preaching at De Soto, Vernon Co., Wis; he has been constantly employed since as a minister of the Gospel. He served as Pastor of the Beaver Dam Church two years, and supplied the pulpit of the Randolph Church for a considerable time; he had charge of the Trempealeau Church three years, the Monticello Prairie Church two years, and came from there to Elkhorn in November, 1879. Mr. Sweet was married, at Marble Ridge, Sauk Co., Wis. Feb. 20, 1866, to Miss Achsa Perry, daughter of Daniel T. and Salome (Burdick) Perry. They have four children - Lewis E. P., George E., Emma E., and Ella E.: the two youngest are twins. Cyndi Sweet