| Obed Barney | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Massachusetts Senate Nantucket and Dukes County District | |
| In office 1844–1844 | |
| Succeeded by | William Mitchell |
| Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives Nantucket District | |
| In office 1843–1843 | |
| Personal details | |
| Nationality | American |
Obed Barney was an American politician who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and in the Massachusetts Senate.
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.
Other activities
Barney married Lavinia Coffin in Nantucket on January 15, 1832.
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.
References
- ^ 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
- ^ 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
- 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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