Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Burney, J. G. 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Burney, J.G., Little Falls.  Before the War of the Rebellion broke out there 
dwelt in St. Lawrence county, this State, a family typical in every way of the 
best social and national elements.  Here were the father and mother, and four 
sons and two daughters.  The truest family ties and sentiments united them, 
but when the war broke out the spirit of patriotism led the father and eldest 
son to the front.  The son, then only eighteen years of age, is the subject of 
this sketch.  His father, Thomas Burney, took sick at New Orleans and returned 
home to die in the forty-fourth year of his age, leaving the mother with the 
care of support of five young children.  The men and women into which these 
children have grown are the highest meed of praise that can be given her, but 
she is a type of the most suffering mothers of the war times, whose names 
should forever be perpetuated.  J.G. Burney enlisted in December, 1863, and 
was mustered in January, 1864, in Company M, Eighteenth New York Cavalry.  His 
regiment operated in Louisiana and Texas, and was kept in the vicinity of New 
Orleans for a considerable time.  They were paid off and honorably discharged 
at Galvestion, Texas, in 1866.  He was mustered out as sergeant.  After the 
war Mr. Burney worked at his trade of wagon-making for some  years and then 
traveled for about ten years; two for the Warrior Mower company, then for a 
Utica firm for a time and finally settled in Little Falls in 1885, and on 
January 1, 1891, became a partner in the firm of Burney Brothers.  Mr. Burney 
is a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the Grand Army.  He helped to 
organize Thomas Post, at Prospect, and was its commander for several years.  
He is a man much esteemed in both social and commercial circle for his many 
qualities of head and heart.

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source:
History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of 
its citizens
edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard
Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893
550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports.


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