Pueblo County CO Archives Biographies.....Sweeney, George H. 1879 - 
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Author: Wilbur Fiske Stone (1918)

GEORGE H. SWEENEY.

     Among the alert and enterprising business men of Pueblo is numbered George
H. Sweeney, who is conducting a real estate and fire insurance agency, in
connection with which he has won a large clientage. He ranks among the foremost
in this connection and his efforts have been a potent and farreaching force in
the upbuilding and improvement of his city. Mr. Sweeney is numbered among the
native sons of Pueblo, born on the 3d of November. 1879. His parents were W. H.
and Hannah (Peabody) Sweeney, the latter a sister of Governor Peabody. The
parents were married in Denver and removed to Pueblo, where Mr. Sweeney for many
years engaged in the furniture business, becoming a pioneer in that line of
trade in his adopted city, to the upbuilding and commercial success of which he
made liberal contribution. Both he and his wife have now passed away. Their
family numbered two sons and a daughter.

     George H. Sweeney, the youngest member of the household, spending his
youthful days under the parental roof, began his education in the public schools
and, mastering various branches of learning, won promotion from time to time
until he became a high school pupil. When his textbooks were put aside he made
his initial step in the business world as an employe in the First National Bank
of Pueblo and later he became connected with the coal trade in this city. The
next change in his business career brought him into the field of real estate, at
which time he opened an office in the Thatcher building. He found here a
congenial field of labor and has made steady and rapid progress. He now handles
most of the large buildings in Pueblo, negotiating many important realty
transfers, and he is also a prominent factor in industrial circles of the city
as the secretary and treasurer of the Pueblo Foundry & Machine Company, which is
controlling a very extensive and important business. In the foundry are employed
one hundred and fifty men and their patronage is steadily increasing,
constituting a substantial source of Pueblo's prosperity. !n addition to his
real estate interests Mr. Sweeney handles fire insurance, of which he writes a
large amount annually.

     On the 8th of January, 1903, Mr. Sweeney was united in marriage to Miss
Lucile Newton, a daughter of George A. Newton, the founder of the Newton Lumber
Company. Both Mr. and Mrs. Sweeney are widely and favorably known in Pueblo,
where their circle of friends is almost coextensive with the circle of their
acquaintance. Mr. Sweeney joined the National Guard at a period when his youth
would have prohibited him and ran away to join the American troops for service
in the Spanish-American war but w.as brought back home. The same spirit of
loyalty, however, has characterized him in all the intervening years and he has
ever stood stanchly in support of those measures and interests which he believes
to be of public benefit. His political allegiance has always been given to the
republican party and he is now serving as deputy state bank commissioner, and
the affairs of the International Bank of Commerce of Pueblo are in his hands for
liquidation. Fraternally he is identified with the Elks and he belongs to the
Chamber of Commerce of Pueblo, to the Minnequa Club and Argonaut Club. He is a
man of pleasing personality, very popular in Pueblo, his genuine worth winning
for him the high and enduring regard of those with whom he has been brought in
contact.


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HISTORY OF COLORADO

ILLUSTRATED

VOLUME III

CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1918



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