Brief Life History of Ulysses Grant
When Ulysses Grant Barney was born on 8 January 1864, in Grove, Allegany, New York, United States, his father, Ziba Shaw BARNEY Jr., was 48 and his mother, Minerva Green, was 43. He married Elsie F. Moses about 1885, in Allegany, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Perry, Perry, Wyoming, New York, United States for about 10 years and Perry, Wyoming, New York, United States in 1915. He died in November 1924, in Belvidere, Amity, Allegany, New York, United States, at the age of 60.
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- Ulysses Barney, "New York State Census, 1892"
- Ulysses G Barney, "Find A Grave Index"
- Eugene Barney in entry for Melvin Ames, "New York, County Marriages, 1847-1848; 1908-1936"
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1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1865 · The Assassination of a President
While attending the play "Our American Cousin" in Ford's Theatre, actor John Wilkes Booth climbed up the stairs to the suite that President Abraham Lincoln and his wife resided. Once inside the suite Booth pulled out his pistol and shot The President in the head. In critical condition The President was carried out of the theatre for urgent medical attention. Unfortunately, Lincoln died the following day. Abraham Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated, and his death caused a period of national mourning both in the North and South.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Barney in Norfolk, which is probably named with an Old English personal name Bera (with genitive -n) + Old English ēg ‘island, dry ground in a marsh’.
English: from the personal name Barney, a pet form of Bernard .
Scottish: possibly from the Old Norse personal name Bjarni (from bjǫrn ‘bear’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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