California Biographies 

Source:
History of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties, California
by: C M Gidney - Santa Barbara. Benjamin Brooks - San Luis Obispo. 
Edwin M Sheridan - Ventura
Volumes II - Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, ILL., 1917

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm


JAMES SWEENEY is one of Santa Barbara County's prosperous and progressive ranchers. His 
place is located near Lompoc.
He has lived in California only a few years, and his early life was spent in Ireland, where he was 
reared and educated and acquired the general experience which he brought with him to 
California.
He was born in County Donegal, Ireland, January 4, 1878, a son of James and Mary (Sweeney) 
Sweeney. His father was an Irish patriot. Mr. James Sweeney Jr. lived in Ireland until 1910. In 
that year he married Ellen McNulty. The journey to America was in the nature of a wedding 
trip. They arrived in this county July 16, 1910, and came on direct to Lompoc in Santa Barbara 
County, California. Here Mr. Sweeney spent several years as a ranch employe, and after 
mastering the various phases of California agricultural conditions he bought his present ranch 
of 360 acres, and is making a very prosperous and substantial showing.
Since becoming an American citizen he has allied himself with the democratic party. He and his 
wife are members of the Catholic Church and they are the parents pf four children, one son and 
three daughters.