Charles Tracy Barney (1851 - 1907)

Born 27 Jan 1851 in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Laurinda Collins (Whitney) Barney — married 19 Oct 1875 in Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States

Died 14 Nov 1907 at age 56 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States

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Biography

Charles Tracy Barney (January 27, 1851 – November 14, 1907) was the president of the Knickerbocker Trust Company, the collapse of which shortly before Barney's death sparked the Panic of 1907.[1]

Charles T. Barney was born on January 27, 1851, in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Ashbel H. Barney (1816–1886) and Susan (Tracy) Barney. His father was a successful forwarding and commission merchant.[2]

Barney married Laurinda Collins "Lily" Whitney, daughter of Brigadier General James Scollay Whitney and the former Laurinda Collins (a descendant of Plymouth governor William Bradford). She was the sister of William Collins Whitney, the patriarch of the Whitney family, industrialist Henry Melville Whitney, president of the Metropolitan Steamship Company,[22] and Susan Collins Whitney, married attorney Henry F. Dimock. The Barneys were the parents of two sons and two daughters:[23]

Ashbel Hinman Barney II (1876–1945), who was in charge of the holdings of his family through the Barney Estate Company.[24] James Whitney Barney (1878–1948) Gardiner Tracy Barney (1880–1887) Helen Tracy Barney (1882–1922), who married Archibald Stevens Alexander. After his death, she married Frederick N. Watriss. Katharine Lansing Barney (1885–1958), who married Courtlandt Dixon Barnes Marie Barney, who married Harry Newell Reynolds (d. 1917).[25]

Sources

• Wikipedia profile: Charles T. Barney

• "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910, 1921-1924", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH1F-QLV : 24 January 2020), Charles Tracy Barney, 1875.
• "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2W9P-B43 : 2 June 2020), Charles T. Barney, 14 Nov 1907; citing Death, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States, New York Municipal Archives, New York; FHL microfilm 1,323,168.
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 24 February 2021), memorial page for Charles Tracy Barney (27 Jan 1850–14 Nov 1907), Find A Grave: Memorial #97677181, citing Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, Bronx County, New York, USA ; Maintained by Neil Funkhouser (contributor 46781068) .