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 [Swoope’s Twentieth Century History]. Mr. Swoope was married in January, 1905, to Miss Maude H. Moore.

Resident of Madera, Clearfield, PA in 1911.
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H. B. Swoope is listed as:

General Superintendent, ca.1906, Corona Coal & Coke Company, Madera, PA, Corona Mine, Clearfield Co., PA.);

General Superintendent, ca.1912, Corona Coal & Coke Company and H. B. Swoope Company, Madera, PA, Corona Mine, Clearfield Co., PA.1887
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General Superintendent, ca.1912, Corona Coal & Coke Company and H. B. Swoope Company, Madera, PA, Morgan Run Mine, Clearfield Co., PA.1888
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Soon after [1924], the Masonic Hall Association [in Curwensville] was formed, and among the members was Henry B. Swoope. [For more about the Masons of Curwensville see Apgar Bloom (18838-1913), and Hugh McNiel Irvin].900
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A Henry Swoope, Jr., of Madera, is visiting his grandparents Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Swoope [1917].1889