[1] Sweetser was also a director of E. T. Slattery, the Wellesley Cooperative Bank, Edward Bryant & Co., East Boston Marginal Freight Railroad, and the Concord & Boston Street Railway Company and a member of the Wellesley, Massachusetts board of selectmen from 1907 to 1911.

[4] While awaiting arraignment, the daughter of another client accused Sweetser of withholding $2,000 of $3,000 her father was awarded in a personal injury case.

[5] In July 1927, a Suffolk County grand jury indicted Sweetser on five counts of larceny of bonds valued at $54,267.

[9] His sentence was extended by 2.5 to 5 years after he pleaded guilty to larceny in the Middlesex County case.

[10] On August 24, 1932, the Massachusetts Governor's Council granted Sweester a pardon on the condition of parole.

He became a well-known author, lectured throughout the country, and taught classes in horticulture at Harvard College.