Sweetser Brothers
{{Short description|American former snuff and cigar manufacturer}}
{{Infobox company
|name = Sweetser Brothers
|logo = 1840 Sweetser Boston.png
|fate = Sold
|successor = F. L. & J. A. Raddin
|foundation = 1820
|defunct = 1885
|location = Saugus, Massachusetts
Boston
|industry = Tobacco
|key_people = Charles Sweetser
George H. Sweetser
Charles A. Sweetser
Charles H. Sweetser
Albert H. Sweetser
|products = Snuff
Cigars
}}
Sweetser Brothers was an American manufacturer of snuff tobacco and cigars.
The Sweetser family's involvement in tobacco began with William Sweetser Jr., who sold hand-rolled snuff. His tobacco business was the first in the Saugus, Massachusetts neighborhood that bore the family name - Sweetser's Corner.
In 1820, his son Charles Sweetser purchased the snuff mill of Samuel Copp. Sweetser also manufactured cigars, specifically "long nines" and "short sixes". Sweetser's products were sold throughout the United States and Canada. Sweetser expanded his company by acquiring the snuff business owned by Jonathan Makepeace.{{cite journal |last1=Robinson |first1=E. P. |title=Sketch of Saugus |journal=The Bay State Monthly |date=1885 |volume=2 |pages=150, 152 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=it8XAQAAIAAJ |access-date=4 May 2022}} By 1850, the business was known as Charles Sweetser & Sons.{{cite book |title=The Directory of the City of Boston |date=1850 |publisher=George Adams |location=Boston |page=304 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AQbIedq11XsC&pg=PA304 |access-date=8 May 2022}} Charles Sweetser retired in 1855 and the business was taken over by two of his sons - Charles A. and George H. Sweetser, who began running it under the name Sweetser Brothers.{{cite book |title=The Boston Directory |date=1855 |publisher=Geo. Adams |location=Boston |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JiNEAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA52 |access-date=8 May 2022}}{{cite book |last1=Atherton |first1=Horace H. |title=History of Saugus, Massachusetts |date=1915 |publisher=Citizens Committee of the Saugus Board of Trade |pages=53, 67 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=550-AAAAYAAJ |access-date=4 May 2022}} Following George H. Sweetser's death in 1870, his son Albert H. Sweetser took over his half of the business. On October 1, 1874, Charles A. Sweetser sold his interest to his son, Charles H. Sweetser. On January 1, 1881, Albert Sweetser acquired his cousin's interest in the business.{{cite book |last1=Sweetser |first1=Philip Starr |title=Seth Sweetser and His Descendants |date=1938 |publisher=Integrity Press |location=Philadelphia |page=271 |url=https://www.seekingmyroots.com/members/files/G006180.pdf |access-date=18 May 2022}} In November 1885 he sold the business to Joseph A. Raddin.{{cite book|title=History of Essex County, Massachusetts: With Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, Volume 1|year=1888|publisher=J. W. Lewis & Company|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4da_fyBBU1IC|editor=Duane Hamilton Hurd|accessdate=8 May 2022|page=413}}