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MICHAEL W. SWEENEY decends from Edmund and Margaret (Sullivan) Sweeney, and was born in Cork, Ireland, in 1835. The ancestors of Mr. Sweeney were Irish and the family antedates the feudal times. His grandfathers and father were farmers on the Green Isle and their bones rest with those of their fathers. Edmund Sweeney, (father) married Margaret Sullivan, who also came from one of the oldest families of the country, and together were the parents of six children, two sons and four daughters, all of whom came to America. Miles is living at Hornellsville, New York, where he settled and for many years followed the railroad as a means of livelihood, but becoming an old man and his condition no longer requiring that he should labor, a few years ago, quit it, and is now living comfortably and quietly; Mary, married James Buckley and is dead; Ellen, Ann and Johanna.

Michael W. Sweeney lived with his parents until thirteen years of age and in 1848 came to seek his fortune in the new world. Landing at New York he first settled at Walton, N. Y., and from there went to Elmira, in the same State. He remained at Elmira a number of years and in 1861 came to Jamestown where he has lived ever since. He is a moulder by trade and followed it through his earlier life.

M. W. Sweeney led Kate Maloney to the altar and they were united in marriage. Three children have blest this marriage: Katie, Agnes and Mary.

Like other people of thrift and economy he is now the possessor of considerable property, the fine, large three-story brick building, 27x60 feet in dimensions located near the boat landing belonging to him, and in it he conducts a first-class grocery store.

In politics Mr. Sweeney is independent, feeling bound to no political party but is a member of the Jamestown Catholic church, which he regularly attends. Like many other of our American citizens of Irish birth, who early emigrated to this, from the mother country, Mr. Sweeney has made a success of life.