Short Biography of Cyril F. Sweet

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 Miss 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" ⁶⁰⁷