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One of the 13 Founding Fathers of the Delphic Fraternity.
Charles Wesley Barney
Aug. 11, 1853 - Jul. 17, 1924
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Charles Wesley Barney was born on August 11, 1853, in Mount Morris, Livingston County, New York to George Wilson Barney and Mary Peterson. Charles had two older brothers named Richard and George. The Barney Family were Methodists who traced their roots to England and settled in Salem, Massachusetts in 1634.
Charles W. Barney attended the Geneseo State Normal School, where, at the age of 18, he became a founding member of the Delphic Society.
After graduating in 1875, he relocated to New York City and worked at the Custom House in lower Manhattan. Charles married Adele Gertrude Cecil Merry in New York City on May 15, 1882. The couple had one son, Charles Wesley Barney, Jr. Charles Sr. lived in Manhattan and Brooklyn and was a law investigator.
Charles Barney died a widower in Brooklyn, New York on July 17, 1924, at the age of 70. He is buried at the Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, N.Y.
Sources:
History of Livingston County, New York, by James Hadden Smith, 1881, p. 311.
Genealogy of the Barney Family in America, by Eugene Dimon Preston, edited by William Clifford Barney, published by the Barney Family Historical Association, 1990, p. 249 & 430.
Family Search.Org (Charles W Barney, “New York State Census, 1875” & Charles W Barney, New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949.”)
Archives at the Fraser Hall Library at SUNY Geneseo.
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