{"id":597,"date":"2015-09-28T14:12:57","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T18:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/?page_id=597"},"modified":"2020-01-11T01:39:39","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T06:39:39","slug":"joseph-l-sweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/joseph-l-sweet\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph L. Sweet"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Brother Joseph L. Sweet<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a07 Feb 1852, Mansfield Ma – 1932, Attleboro Ma<\/p>\n

Bro. Sweet\u00a0was a partner from circa 1875 to 1930 with Robert Fitz Simmons and Edgar L. Hixon in Attleboro, Ma as <\/span><\/p>\n

R. F. SIMMONS Company, manufacturing jewelers.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Simmons-1919\"<\/a><\/p>\n

After taking upon the degrees of Freemasonry, Joseph took a Pilgrimage to Jerusalem and neighboring areas in 1905.<\/p>\n

Returning with a Gavel and 2 ashlars, one rough one smooth from the same quarries that produced King Solomon’s temple.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_8653\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Joseph’s son Bro. Harold Sweet would become the first mayor of Attleboro.<\/p>\n

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Brother Joseph L. Sweet \u00a07 Feb 1852, Mansfield Ma – 1932, Attleboro Ma Bro. Sweet\u00a0was a partner from circa 1875 to 1930 with Robert Fitz Simmons and Edgar L. Hixon in Attleboro, Ma as R. F. SIMMONS Company, manufacturing jewelers. After taking upon the degrees of Freemasonry, Joseph took a Pilgrimage to Jerusalem and neighboring […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"

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Born: 7 Feb 1852, Mansfield Ma<\/p>

Passed:\u00a0 1932, Attleboro Ma<\/p>

Bro. Sweet\u00a0was a partner from circa 1875 to 1930 with Robert Fitz Simmons and Edgar L. Hixon in Attleboro, Ma as <\/span><\/p>

R. F. SIMMONS Company, manufacturing jewelers.<\/span><\/p>

\"Simmons-1919\"<\/a><\/p>

After taking upon the degrees of Freemasonry, Joseph took a Pilgrimage to Jerusalem and neighboring areas in 1905.<\/p>

Returning with a Gavel and 2 ashlars, one rough one smooth from the same quarries that produced King Solomon's temple.<\/p>

\"IMG_8653\"<\/a><\/p>

Joseph's son Bro. Harold Sweet would become the first mayor of Attleboro.<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prominent"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/5192519f4a0f2.image_.jpg?fit=760%2C687&ssl=1","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2024-12-29 02:29:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3036,"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions\/3036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}