Obed Barney
Obed Barney was an American politician who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and in the Massachusetts Senate.[2]
Obed Barney | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Massachusetts Senate Nantucket and Dukes County District[1] | |
| In office 1844[2] – 1844[2] | |
| Succeeded by | William Mitchell[2] |
| Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives Nantucket District[2] | |
| In office 1843[2] – 1843[2] | |
| Personal details | |
| Nationality | American |
Political offices
Barney was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1843, and a member of the Massachusetts Senate from the Nantucket and Dukes County District in 1844.[2][1]
Other activities
Barney married Lavinia Coffin in Nantucket on January 15, 1832.[3]
In 1848 Barney's nephew Benjamin B. Myrick bought out a substantial lard oil business, with Barney becoming a partner in the business. The factory was destroyed by fire in 1855, but rebuilt with better equipment, and the partners sold the business in May 1857.[4]
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References
- Palfrey, John G. (1844), Acts and Resolves Passed by the Legislature of Massachusetts in the Year 1844, Boston, Massachusetts: Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, p. 381.
- Starbuck, Alexander (July 26, 1911), Proceedings of the Nantucket Historical Association, SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING, July Twenty-sixth, Nineteen Hundred Eleven, Nantucket, Massachusetts: Nantucket Historical Association, p. 32.
- Vital records of Nantucket, Massachusetts: to the year 1850, Vol. 3 (1901), p. 285.
- George Byron Merrick, Genealogy of the Merrick-Mirick-Myrick Family of Massachusetts, 1636-1902 (1902), p. 217-18.
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