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SWEENEY, ZACHARY TAYLOR: 1849-1926.

Zachary Taylor Sweeney , son of G. E. and Talitha Campbell Sweeney, was born at Liberty, Ky., on Feb. 10, 1849. He graduated from Scottville Seminary (Ill.) and studied at Eureka College (Ill.) and De Pauw University. On Mar. 10, 1875, he married Linnie Irwin.

A school teacher in 1866, he was from 1869 to 1897 a minister of the Christian Disciples Church, occupying a pulpit in Paris, Ill., from 1869 to 1871 and in Columbus, Ind., from 1871 to 1896. From 1889 to 1893 he served as U.S. consul general at Constantinople. After 1897 he was a lyceum lecturer.

He died on Feb. 4, 1926.

Information from Who Was Who in America.

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