Family
On September 28, 1914, Edwin Sweetland married Hester Donnelly a nurse whom he meet at a West Penn Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania while recuperating from a broken leg he suffered at a baseball game when he was hit by a foul ball while working for the Pittsburgh Playground Association. Mrs. Sweetland was born in Armagh, Ireland and emigrated with her family when she was five years old. After secretly being married in a small town in Ohio, the couple spent a short time at Sweetland home in Dryden, New York before heading to New Orleans for his job as head football coach of Tulane University. They returned to Dryden after his only season as Tulane football coach. They had one child named Edwin R. Sweetland Jr. Mrs. Sweetland died in 1930 at Memorial Hospital in Ithaca, New York.
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