Jefferson-Montgomery County AlArchives Biographies.....Berney, Cholett November 14, 1847 - 
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Author: “Memorial Record of Alabama,” Volume 2, published by Brant & Fuller in Madison, WI (1893), page248

“Cholett Berney, the popular and successful banker of Bessemer, Ala., was born 
at Montgomery, November 14, 1847, and educated there.  He entered the 
Confederate service in the fall of 1864 as a boy.  After the war, he was 
employed by the Western railway, of Alabama, and was located in Montgomery 
until 1878, when he went to Meridian, Miss., in the employ of the East 
Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia railroad, remaining there until 1887, in which 
year he came to Bessemer and organized the Berney Bros. Bank, and when that 
institution was changed to a state bank, he became its president.  This was 
changed, in 1890, to the First National bank, of which Mr. Berney is still 
president.  He is one of the directors and the manager of the Bessemer street 
railway company and the Berney real estate company, of Bessemer.  HE is a 
member of the Masonic fraternity, and affiliates with the Presbyterian church.  
He was married in December, 1881, to Anna Brook Barrett, daughter of Dr. Junius 
Barrett, of Gainesville, Ala., and to the union was born one child, Anna Brook 
Berney.  Mr. Berney’s wife died in April, 1883.


Additional Comments:
Cholett was in the 1900 Census in Birmingham as a lodger in a bording house.  
His occupation was that of an Insuranse Agent

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