Duval County FlArchives Biographies.....Haney, Thomas W. December 31, 1860 - 
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Source: Vol. II  pg.  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present 

        THOMAS WILLIAM HANEY. A remarkable public service has been that of 
THOMAS WILLIAM HANEY, who for over thirty years has been chief of the 
Jacksonville fire department, and has been in the fire-fighting service forty
years. His father and at least two of his brothers were also firefighters, and
his own son is foreman of Station No. 1 at Jacksonville.
	Chief Haney was born at Atlanta, Georgia, December 31, 1860, son of 
THOMAS and HANNAH (GUNN) HANEY. His father, who was born in Ireland, was six 
years of age when brought to this country by his parents, who located at 
Philadelphia. He was educated in the public schools of that city, and as a 
youth learned the trade of blacksmith in the Cramp’s shipyard. In 1856 he 
removed to Atlanta, Georgia, where he followed his trade. During a part of the 
Civil war he was locomotive engineer, but on the approach of Sherman’s Army to 
Atlanta he went north to Philadelphia, where he remained until 1867, returning 
then to Atlanta. For three or four years he was chief of the fire department of 
Atlanta, and prior to the Civil war had been a member of the City Council. He 
was a Mason in fraternal affairs and a democrat in politics. THOMAS HANEY died 
in 1901, at the age of eighty-one. His wife was born in New Jersey and died in 
1906, at the age of eighty-six. They had a family of three sons and five
daughters, four of whom are living, Thomas William being the seventh in age.
	THOMAS WILLIAM HANEY was educated in the schools of Atlanta, and at the 
age of thirteen began an apprenticeship at the trade of brass and iron molder 
in the shops of the Western and Atlantic Railway. He continued his 
apprenticeship and the work of his trade until he was past twenty-one. At the 
age of eighteen Mr. Haney joined the volunteer fire service Atlanta, and when 
the paid fire department was organized on July 1, 1882, he became foreman of 
the headquarters, being then only six months past his twenty-first birthday. He
made a fine reputation with the Atlantic Fire Department, and after being there
for ten years he was called to the post of chief of the department of
Jacksonville, on September 5, 1892. In the thirty years he has been in charge
of the department the equipment and facilities have been changed and
reorganized several times, and he has always kept the discipline, the personnel
and the facilities up to the highest standard and has won many triumphs in the
course of his service as a firefighter. For a number of years he was president
and vice president of the International Association of Fire Engineers.
	Chief Haney is a past exalted ruler of Jacksonville Lodge No. 221,
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and is affiliated with Council No. 648
Knights of Columbus. He is a democrat in politics. December 12, 1893, Atlanta,
he married Miss BESSIE MELVILLE SMITH. Their two children are HARRY and MARY
ELIZABETH. Harry was educated in the parochial school of Jacksonville and in a
military school at Greenville, South Carolina, and was a second lieutenant in
the Army during the war. In 1919 he was appointed to his post as foreman of the
No. 1 fire station at Jacksonville, and is thus a representative of the third
consecutive generation of this family to engage in the profession of
firefighting. 


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