Edward McSweeney

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Husband Edward McSweeney ¹

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           Born: 24 Feb 1853 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 1
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         Father: John McSweeney (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Elizabeth Quinn (      -Bef 1919) 2

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General Notes: Husband - Edward McSweeney

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Of the six siblings in the family, he was the eldest. He was reared in Armstrong County and Oil City, Pennsylvania, and, his father being a school-teacher, was given good educational advantages. He studied law in Butler, Pennsylvania, in the office of Kennedy & Marshall, and was admitted to the bar in 1875. In 1878 he went to McKean County, and was thereafter engaged in the practice of his profession at Brad-ford. In 1881 he was elected district attorney by the largest majority that was ever given to any Democratic office holder in McKean County, the county being at that time reliably Republican, and served one term. The partnership of McSweeney & Byles was formed in 1885, and the firm transacted a successful law business. In the spring of 1889 Mr. McSweeney was elected mayor of Bradford for a term of two years, but the terms of all holding city offices were shortened by the passage of an act of the assembly, approved May 23, 1889, providing for a new election in the spring of 1890, under which a new set of officials were elected for a term of three years. Mr. McSweeney was a member of Bradford Tent No. 4, K. O. T. M., and also a member of the Knights and Ladies of Honor.

1 —, History of the Counties of McKean, Elk, and Forest, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 376.

2 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 998.