Clearfield County PA Archives - Photos: SWOOPE, Henry B.

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Henry B. Swoope, leading citizen of Clearfield County

photo scanned from Roland D. Swoopes "Twentieth Century History of Clearfield 
County, PA and Representative Citizens", published 1911, page 687

  HENRY BUCHER SWOOPE, who is extensively engaged in the coal business at 
Madera, Clearfield county, Pa., was born at Curwensville, this county, in 1881, 
a son of Roland D. and Cora (Arnold) Swoope.  He is a grandson of the late Hon. 
Henry Bucher Swoope, who was widely known in his life time as a lawyer, a 
brilliant orator, and the founder and first editor of the "Raftsman's Journal," 
of Clearfield, Pa., and of the "Pittsburg Evening Telegraph," and who at the 
time of his death in 1874 was United States Attorney for the Western district 
of Pennsylvania.  The father of our subject is a well known lawyer of 
Curwensville.
  Henry Bucher Swoope of the present notice was given a good English education 
and after completing his studies entered into industrial life with a 
determination to succeed.  He soon turned his attention to the coal business 
with which he is now connected as manager of the Corona Coal and Coke Company 
and also of the H. B. Swoope Company- both flourishing concerns.  He was also 
connected with the organization of the Madera Trading Company in 1903, and with 
that of the Madera National Bank, of which he is vice-president and the Madera 
Water Co., of which he is treasurer.  In these different enterprises Mr. Swoope 
has shown good business ability and is recognized as one of the active and 
prosperous citizens of the community.  As he is still a young man, doubtless 
the future holds much in store for him.  He is a brother of Roland D. Swoope, 
Jr., editor of the present volume.  Mr. Swoope was married in January, 1905, to 
Miss Maude H. Moore.