Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1894 — ADA CELESTE SWEET. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ADA CELESTE SWEET.

Ada Celeste Sweet, President of the Chicago Woman's Club, is a leader among her sex; a woman of the “advanced” type; a woman of affairs; a speaker, writer, thinker: a successful competitor with masculine opponents for place and preferment, this woman is happy in all the charms of femininity. A woman's ideal leader of women and yet a woman in whom the loudest declaimer against the woman’s-rights woman could find nothing at which to cavil. Philanthropic, generous, broadminded, yet not altogether free, possibly, from some of the weaknesses that affect most characters, Ada C. Sweet tries honestly to do good for her sisters, She can address a political meeting with force and eloquence, and she can whisper words of encouragement and cheer to the poor outcast in the underground cells of the police station. Miss Sweet was born in Stockbridge, Wis. Her father was a gallant soldier, General Benjamin J. Sweet, whose dearest companion she was, in camp and at home. When he was Pension

Commissioner she was his secretary When he died she assumed and fui" filled the duties of his office for a timeShe served as Pension Agent at Chica : go during the administrations of Grant, Hayes, Garfield and Arthur, and was the first woman appointed to disburse money for the United States Government. In woman’s work in Chicago Miss Sweet has taken an active and prominent part. She has been during the last four years at the head of the general club committee on compulsory education. She raised a fund for the Women's Buildings at the Chicago University. For ten years she has worked to obtain separate quarters for arrested women and girls in the police stations and the appointment of matrons. She raised the money to build the first ambulances used by the Police Department, and in njany ways she has been a friend to the poor, the suffering and the distressed. Miss Sweet, since 188?% has conducted a pension claim office in Chicago with great success.