Obed Barney

Obed Barney
Member of the
Massachusetts Senate
Nantucket and Dukes County District[2]
In office
1844[1]–1844[1]
Succeeded byWilliam Mitchell[1]
Member of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives
Nantucket District[1]
In office
1843[1]–1843[1]
Personal details
NationalityAmerican

Obed Barney was an American politician who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and in the Massachusetts Senate.[1]

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.[1][2]

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]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h 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
  2. ^ a b 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
  3. ^ Vital records of Nantucket, Massachusetts: to the year 1850, Vol. 3 (1901), p. 285.
  4. ^ George Byron Merrick, Genealogy of the Merrick-Mirick-Myrick Family of Massachusetts, 1636-1902 (1902), p. 217-18.


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