Charles H Sweetser

Charles H. Sweetser (August 25, 1841 – 1871) was an American author, journalist and editor. He was born in Athol, Massachusetts, in Worcester County and graduated from Amherst College in 1862. The poet Emily Dickinson was one of his cousins and his daughter, Kate Dickinson Sweetser, was also an author. He founded the New York publications The Round Table (one of the earliest literary weeklies in American printing) and the New York Evening Mail. He died in Palatka, Florida, (then known as Pilatka) at the age of thirty.