History of Swansea, Massachusetts, 1667-1917; - citizen hylbom blog

Family Records 145
1812, Polly Grant. His children by the first marriage were: Angeline,
born in 1802, married John D. Mason; Edwin, born in 1804, married Abby
Luther; Mason was born in 1808. To the second marriage were born:
Martha, who married William Franklin; Jonathan, unmarried; Mary, who
married Enos Conkling; Betsey, who married Charles Smith; Rodman,
who married Elizabeth Seymour; and Esther and Mason, both unmarried.
(VIII) Rodman Barney, son of Mason and Martha, married
Ehzabeth Seymour, and had children: Esther M., who married William
D. Vose, of Newport, R. I., and has a daughter, Lozetta; Algernon
HoUister; Rodman, who died aged two years; and Jonathan, who married
Ida Barker, and Uves in Barrington, R. I.
(IX) Algernon HoUister Barney, son of Rodman, was born at his
present residence in Swansea, Mass. His education was obtained in the
public schools of Swansea, the Warren High School, and Cady's private
school in Barrington, R. I. When he was sixteen years of age his father
died, and the care of the farm devolved upon the young son. He sold hay
and produce to the city of Providence, and at the age of eighteen went to
Canada to buy horses for that city. For over 25 years he has been the
holder of the contract for the disposal of the garbage of Providence, and at
one time had the contract for the same work for Pawtucket, Fall River,
New Bedford, and Newport. He holds the government mail contract in
Ptovidence. He has a livery stable on Dorrance street. Providence, where
he keeps 125 horses. His various contracts necessitate the constant use
of three hundred horses, and over two hundred men are on his pay roll.
His Swansea farm contains 1,200 acres. He pays considerable attention
to raising hogs. He has always been blessed with good health, and his
happy disposition has won him many friends who have rejoiced in the
success and prosperity that have attended his efiforts in the business world.
He was one of the founders of the old Providence Athletic Club. He is a
member of the Elks, the United Workmen, and the Masons, having attained
to the thirty-second degree in Masonry; and is also a member of
the Shrine.
Mr. Barney has been twice married. By his 6rst wife, Madora W.
Brayton, he had three children: Carrie E., who married Willard C.
Gardner, of Swansea, and had two children, Madora and Marcia; Rodman
S., manager of his father's farm, who married Augusta Merriweather, and
has five children, Mollie, Rodman, Algernon, Augusta and Elizabeth; and
Ethel, who married Ernest Bell (who has charge of the U. S. mail contract
in Providence for Mr. Barney) and has four children: Algernon S., Hope,
Ernest and CaroHne. Aug. 30, 1907, Mr. Barney married (second) Jessie
E. Sampson, of Fall River, Massachusetts.
Brayton Family
The first in America by this name, one Francis Brayton, came from
England to Portsmouth, Rhode Island, where, in 1643, he was received as
an inhabitant, in 1655, became a freeman, and to him nearly if not aU the
Braytons of New England trace their origin. He soon entered into the
pohtical fife of the country, serving as a member of the General Court of
Commissioners for the Colony, for many years as member of the Rhode
Island General Assembly, and frequently during the later generations his
descendants have held positions of responsibility and trust in the public
offices of State, and the private offices of the business world. The name is
found on the rolls of the Unit^ States Army and Navy, and on the professional
records of the clergy, the physician, and the lawyer.
This sketch, however, is confined to one of the branches of the family