CYRIL FAIRMAN SWEET, D. M. D. One of the representative citizens and prominent professional men of Ward County, North Dakota, is Dr. Cyril Fairman Sweet, Exodontist and X-Ray dental specialist, at Minot, and in this relation is widely known. Coming to this state many years ago and maintaining his home here ever since, he has assisted as a citizen in the upbuilding of Minot, and is one of the most experienced and highly skilled members of his profession in this section of the Northwest.
Dr. Cyril Fairman Sweet was born at Fort Wayne, Indiana, July 21, 1874, son of Kay C. and Elizabeth (Cochrane) Sweet, and grandson of Rev. Cyril Fairman Sweet, whose honored name he bears. The grandfather was born in New York State, where he was liberally educated, and later became a minister in the Baptist Church, in Pennsylvania and Indiana, a zealous churchman and beloved leader in old circuit-rider days.
Kay C. Sweet, father of Dr. Sweet, was born in Pennsylvania, but was reared in New York, and was married at Fort Wayne, Indiana to Mis Elizabeth Cochrane, a member of an old pioneer family of Allen County. In 1883 Mr. Sweet removed with his family to Waseca, Minnesota, from there to Mankato, Minnesota, and from there to Minneapolis. Subsequently he moved into Ryder and became a merchant, and there both he and his wife died some years later. All of their five children survive: John C., a lawyer, Mrs. Clara Grierson and Mrs. Frank Hoerr, of Mankato Minnesota; Cyril Fairman, of Minot, North Dakota; and Alfred J., a large shoe manufacturer, in Maine. Widely separated as they are, they keep in touch with each other as a united family.
After completing his public school course, during which he manifested unusual interest in his scientific studies along certain lines, Cyril Fairman Sweet entered the University of Minnesota, and was graduated from the University Dental School in 1901. In the meantime he decided on Minot as offering the most encouraging field for the practice of his profession. Here Doctor Sweet has remained, finding opportunity, friends, appreciation and a degree of actual distinction to repay him for his continued scientific study and close observation. He built up a large and substantial practice in general dental surgery, but in recent years he devotes himself entirely to X-Ray and Exodontist work, and in the latter specialty is the only dental surgeon in North Dakota who so confines himself. His modern equipped offices are situated in the Sweet Block, Minot. He is a member of the Minot Dental Club, the American Society of Oral Surgeons and Exodontists, the North Dakota State Dental Association and the American Dental Association.
During his many years at Minot Doctor Sweet has accumulated property and other interests. He was president of the Sweet Motor Company, a very substantial enterprise, and at present is improving his real estate on the corner of Main Street and Fourth Avenue with a handsome three-story building to be designated the Sweet Block, and after its completion contemplates taking over the second floor for his offices. In 1905 he bought a hardware store at Ryder, North Dakota, of which his father was manager for some years, but sold that property after his father's death.
Doctor Sweet was married at Hudson, Wisconsin, September 6, 1897, to Miss Nellie Corp, who was born, reared and educated in Minnesota, where her father, George Corp, had been a pioneer. Doctor and Mrs. Sweet enjoy an attractive home residence situated on South Main Street. They are members of the First Baptist Church at Minot. The Doctor is an active member of the Minot Association of Commerce, the fraternal order of Elks and both the Minot Golf and Curling clubs, and is a thirty-second degree Mason. He is not particularly active in politics but maintains strong convictions and never fails to stand by them whenever a test is made. From his youth and college days he has been interested in out-door sports and is a golf enthusiast, and when summer has passed his is equally satisfied on the curling field. He belongs also to the Rotary Club and has additional professional and social connections.
Source: "History of North Dakota"; Lewis F. Chapman, Vol. 2, pg. 149-150 (1931)
Dr. Cyril F. Sweet, 73, who had practiced dentistry in Minot for 46 years, died at 9 a. m. Sunday in a hospital at Rochester, Minn.
In ailing health for some time, Dr. Sweet closed his dental offices early this month and with Mrs. Sweet had gone to Mankato, Minn., for a visit with relatives. From there he was taken to Rochester for medical attention and while there suffered a broken hip in a fall. His condition since had been critical.
Mrs. Sweet, who had spent the last few days at Grand Forks with her nephew and niece, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore B. Wells, left for Mankato on Sunday and funeral services will be held there Tuesday. A nephew, Harold Northrop, is making arrangements there.
Services have been set for 3 p. m. at the Kelly-Boman funeral chapel and burial will be in a cemetery there. Mankato had been the early home of the Sweets.
A brother of Dr. Sweet, John C. Sweet, lives in Minneapolis and a nephew, Marvin Northrop, also lives in that city.
Dr. Sweet was a charter member of the Minot Rotary club and had a 22 year record of perfect attendance at meetings. As he lay ill at Rochester, the Minot club voted him an honorary membership, thru which the attendance record remained complete, despite his absence because of illness.
Dr. Sweet had served on the North Dakota state board of dental examiners and had been president of the Minot Dental society. He was a member of the Masonic order and of the Minot lodge of Elks and for a number of years had been an active member of the Elks committee on crippled children's work.
In the Masonic order he belonged to Star in the West lodge, No. 33, A. F. and A. M., and was a 32nd degree member in the Scottish Rite bodies.
Born in Fort Wayne, Ind., July 21, 1874, Dr. Sweet moved to Minnesota early in life. He studied dentistry at the University of Minnesota and was proud of the fact that he helped to finance his course by working as a plumber.
Soon after graduation he opened offices in Minot and had remained here thruout the intervening years.
During recent years he had been a specialist in exodontia. When he closed his offices here a few weeks ago he announced that they were being closed temporarily and that he would return after a visit in Minnesota. He and Mrs. Sweet had planned to spend the winter in Texas.
Formerly a hunting enthusiast for many years, Dr. Sweet had been interested in golf and was a former stockholder in the Minot Country club.
Dr. F. J. Hartl who cam to Minot in 1911 was associated with Dr. Sweet for 2 years, until opening his own offices and Dr. V. E. Sandberg, now of Franklin, Ind., also at one time was associated with Dr. Sweet.
The Minot Daily News, Aug. 25, 1947, Page 1
Mrs. Nellie Sweet, 75, resident of Minot for 48 years, died Monday noon in a Minneapolis hospital.
She was the widow of Dr. C. F. Sweet, prominent Minot dentist, who died Aug. 24, 1947, in a hospital at Rochester, Minn.
The former Nellie Corp was born in April, 1874, of a pioneer Minnesota family.
She was married to Dr. Sweet, Sept. 6, 1897, at Hudson, Wis. In 1901, Dr. Sweet was graduated from the University of Minnesota school of dentistry, and almost immediately afterwards, the couple took up residence in Minot.
In Minot, Dr. Sweet built up a large practice in dental surgery, and concentrated in exodontia and x-ray work.
Dr. and Mrs. Sweet were long-time members of the First Baptist church in Minot, and Mrs. Sweet was especially active in the ladies aid organization.
Dr. and Mrs. Sweet left Minot for Mankato, Minn., to visit relatives in August 1947. From there, he was taken to Rochester where he died in a hospital.
Mrs. Sweet continued to live in Minot after her husband's death until March of this year when she moved to Mankato.
In Minot, Mrs. Sweet was the owner of the Sweet block, 402 Main st. s., and an adjoining residence. When they first arrived in Minot, they lived above what is now the Goldberg furniture store.
Mrs. Sweet had no children. She is survived by her sister, Mrs. Gertrude A. Beach, Mankato, two nephews, Marvin A. Northrop, Minneapolis, and Harold A. Northrop, Mankato. Also surviving is a niece, Mrs. Theodore Wells, Grand Forks, formerly of Minot. Mrs. Sweet's mother, Mrs. Jane Maxham, died in 1931 in Minot.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday, at Mankato. Burial will be in a Mankato cemetery where Dr. Sweet and her mother are buried.
The Minot Daily News, July 12, 1949, Page 6
