From "History of Wheeling City and Ohio County, West Virginia and 
Representative Citizens," by Hon. Gibson Lamb Cranmer, 1902. 

Typed by Laurie Birks Dean

pp. 439-440

Thomas B. SWEENEY, general manager for the Equitable Life Assurance 
Society of the United States, is a resident of Wheeling, Ohio county, 
West Virginia, where he was born and reared.  He is a son of John F. 
Sweeney, and a grandson of Thomas Sweeney.
	Thomas Sweeney came from Pittsburg to Wheeling in his youth, 
early in the nineteenth century.  He was a native of New York, where 
he was born in 1807.  He was an active business man during his life, 
was president of the Exchange Bank of Wheeling, and of two or three 
glass companies, and was also engaged in the iron business.  He lived 
to the good old age of eighty-four years, and died in 1891.
	John F. Sweeney was born in Wheeling, and was at one time 
engaged in the pottery business.  He subsequently entered the life 
insurance business, and was the first representative for West 
Virginia of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United 
States.  He married Lulu Belle, a native of Washington, Pennsylvania, 
who is at present a resident of Highland Park, where she has recently 
erected a new home.  Three sons and four daughters were born to this 
union, namely:  Thomas B.; John E. B., manager of the Pool Clock 
Company at No. 1121 Main street, Wheeling, West Virginia; Julian 
McF., special agent of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the 
United States at Wheeling; Florence; Louise; Grace; and Patti Mai.  
John F. Sweeney died in 1895.
	Thomas B. Sweeney received his early education at Wheeling, 
graduated at Linsly Institute, and afterward from Washington and 
Jefferson College, Washington, Pennsylvania, in 1895.  In 1885 he 
succeeded his father as manager of the Equitable Life Assurance 
Society of the United States, which position he has retained ever 
since.  The company has branch agencies at different points of 
importance, has established local agencies in the main towns in the 
state, and is one of the strongest companies in the world.  Mr. 
Sweeney has charge of the agencies in Ohio and West Virginia.