Milton Braney's biography, Homer Township, Calhoun County, Michigan

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MILTON BARNEY
 1796-1879

Milton Barney was born in New Marlborough, Mass., Feb. 3, 1796.  Upon
arriving at manhood he removed to Lyons, N.Y., and about 1818 married Sophia
Dorsey, an aunt of Thomas S. and William A. Dorsey, now residents of this
village; came to Michigan in 1832, and was the first white settler in this
village.  In 1843 he removed to Detroit and purchased the Woodworth Hotel,
which he kept until it was destroyed by fire.  He later went to Chicago,
where he kept the American Temperance Hotel until the spring of '52, when
with his family he crossed the plains to California and settled in
Sacramento, where he died January 5, 1879.  Mrs. Barney was born in
Libertytown, Maryland, in 1800, and died in Sacramento in September '75.
Mr. and Mrs. Barney had eight children: Aurelia, who married Elisha
Thornton, now lives in California; Mary, now Mrs. M. D. Kellog, Oakland, the
same state; Daniel who died in California in 1859, or '60; Caroline, who
died in Detroit in '45 or 6; Elanor, who married a Mr. Brady, resides in
Saramento, Cal.; Henry, who died here in Homer in '44, aged ten years;
Delia, now Mrs. Ingrham, of Sacramento; and Elizabeth, who married a Mr.Coe
and lives in San Francisco.

Homer and It's Pioneers - 1888