Obed Barney

Obed Barney
Member of the
Massachusetts Senate
Nantucket and Dukes County District
In office
1844–1844
Succeeded byWilliam Mitchell
Member of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives
Nantucket District
In office
1843–1843

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

  1. 1 2 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
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 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
  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.