Sweetser also served in the Idaho Legislature. He was a member of the Idaho State House of Representatives from 1901 to 1902 and from 1905 to 1906.[3] He died in Los Angeles in 1944.[4]
He was partner with George and Harry Burroughs, brothers of Edgar Rice Burroughs, in a cattle ranch named the "Bar Y" in the valley of the Raft River, a post office there named Yale, and later in 1893 the Sweetser-Burroughs Mining Company that dredge mined the Snake River for gold.[5]
Their second dredging boat, their first being the Argus, was called the Yale.[6]
Sweetser and the Burroughs Brothers had been contemporaries at Yale University, and the "Bar Y", the boat, and the post office were named after it.[7]
References
^Twin Falls News, Friday, October 16, 1908, Twin Falls, Idaho, United States Of America