Family:Eugene Barney and Belle Huffman (1)

EUGENE JUDSON BARNEY was born in Dayton on February 12, 1839, a son of Eliam Eliakim and Julia (Smith) Barney. Eugene Barney attended private schooling in Rochester, New York and upon his return to Dayton, entered the company of his father, the Barney & Smith Car Works. Mr. Barney began as a general workman and served 30 years as company president. He served as Director of the Fourth National Bank, the Union Safe Deposit and Trust company, the City Railway and the Davis Sewing Machine Company. For years he was a trustee of Miami Valley Hospital. He built and donated Science Hall at Denison University in memory of his father, Eliam. The Barney House located at Valley and Chapel Streets in Dayton, came from contributions of Eugene Barney’s daughter, Mrs. Harries Gorman, who established it in the memory of her father and her grandfather, E. E. Barney. Eugene Barney was married to Martha Belle Huffman who died on January 3, 1906. They were the parents of: Anna B., Julia S., Mary Elizabeth, and Edward E. Later, Eugene married again to Eleanor Musselman. Eugene Judson Barney died on September 4, 1917 at the age of 78. He is located in Section 102 Lot1492.

Name: Eugene Judson Barney Titles & Terms: Death Date: 04 Sep 1917 Death Place: Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio Birth Date: 12 Feb 1839 Estimated Birth Year: Birthplace: Dayton, Ohio Death Age: 78 years 6 months 12 days Gender: Male Marital Status: Married Race or Color: American Street Address: 239 N. Ludlow St 1 Ward Occupation: Manufacture Residence: Dayton, O. Burial Date: 06 Sep 1917 Burial Place: Woodland Cemetery Cemetery Name: Woodland Spouse's Name: Father's Name: E.E. Barney Father's Title & Terms: Father's Birthplace: Ohio Mother's Name: Julia Smith Mother's Titles & Terms: Mother's Birthplace: Ohio Film Number: 1984107 Digital Folder Number: 4021649 Image Number: 2621 Certificate Number: fn 60375 Collection: Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953

Burial: Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum Dayton Montgomery County Ohio, USA

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   EUGENE J. BARNEY, President of the Barney & Smith Manufacturing Company, was born in Dayton, Ohio, February 12, 1839. His education was limited to that received at the common and high schools. At the age of fifteen he entered the class of 1858 of Rochester University, but left college during the last term of the sophomore year, having, after persistent efort, induced his father to grant him permission to enter business. At the age of seventeen he entered the ofice of Rufus Dutton, a manufacturer of agricultural implements. At the age of twenty he took the general agency of a new cotton press for the States of Tennessee and Mississippi, and for three years was successfully engaged in introducing it throughout the South. Coming North, in 1860, he entered the Ohio Valley Bank, of Cincinnati, Ohio, as a clerk. During his connection with this large banking house, he was sent on important business to different parts of Ohio, Indiana, and Tennessee. At the end of two years he entered a banking house in Chicago. In February, 1862, he was married to Miss Belle Huffman, eldest daughter of W. P. Huffman, Esq., of Dayton. He was in business in Cincinnati for several years after his marriage, and removed to Dayton in 1866. Having saved several thousand dollars from the various enterprises in which he had been engaged, he purchased the interest of S. F. Woodsum in the firm of Barney, Smith & Company, now incorporated as the Barney & Smith (page 689) Manufacturing Company. In a year or two lie was appointed superintendent of the works, and upon Mr. Smith's retiring, on account of ill-health, he was made vice-president and superintendent. In 1880, after the death of his father, he was made president of the company, and has held the position ever since. Mr. Barney was a member of the First Regular Baptist Church of Dayton for some twenty years, and since then of the Linden Avenue Baptist Church. He is now president of the Barney & Smith Manufacturing Company, of the Dayton Manufacturing Company, and of the Cooper Hydraulic Company, and is a director of the Fourth National Batik, of the Union Safe Deposit Company, and of the Columbia Insurance Company, the Dayton Street Railroad Company, the Wisconsin Contral Railroad Company, and the Piqua and Troy Railroad Company. It will thus be seen that Mr. Barney is one of the most active, as he is one of the most successful, of Dayton's younger class of business men.
   
   History of Dayton, Ohio 1889
   www.daytonhistorybooks.com

2. ↑ Find A Grave
   3 Oct 2016.

   http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Barney&GSfn=Eugene&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=37&GScnty=2096&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=54892209&df=all&

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   Dayton Daily News, January 28, February 4, 11, 18, 25, March 4, 11, 18, 25, 1995
   BARNEY NAME MEANS MORE THAN A DINOSAUR TO DAYTON
   by Roz Young reproduced here: https://www.daytonhistorybooks.com/youngbarney.html