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Author: Will T. Hale

   NORFLEET LYNX CARNEY. Among the Tennessee families of business and

professional achievement and social prominence who have been long identified

with Montgomery county and its principal city, Clarksville, the Carneys are not

only notable for a residence here of a century or more but also for the

attainments of the individual representatives of the name. In the present

generation Norfleet Lynn Carney has been known as a successful physician,

through his connection with large business interests, and by his active part in

public affairs.



   Richard Carney, the great-grandfather, is first mentioned as a resident of

Portsmouth, Norfolk county, Virginia, where in 1761 he was made a vestryman of

the Episcopal church. The official records show that his son, Richard, Jr., was

a lieutenant in the American army during the Revolution. During that time all

the Carneys moved from Portsmouth, Norfolk county, Virginia, to North Carolina,

then Richard Jr. returned to Virginia, and in 1808 came west, settling first in

Robinson county, Tennessee, and in 1809 established his home in Montgomery

county. During his residence in this state he had charge of the militia muster,

and in that way acquired his popular title of "General." Farming was his

occupation through his active career. He married Sallie Lewelling, of Virginia.



   Christopher N. Carney, a son of the above, was born in 1782 in North

Carolina, where he grew up and was educated, and in 1807 migrated over the

mountains into Tennessee, becoming one of the early settlers of Montgomery

county. He bought a farm several years after coming here, and became one of the

big planters of the time, having many slaves to attend to the fields and the

household. His death occurred in this county in 1862, in his eightieth year. He

married first, Elizabeth Johnson of Montgomery county, Tennessee, having no

children; his second marriage was to Margrett Carnes Lynn, who was born in

Montgomery county in 1818, being also of one of the early families of this

section. She was the second of the five children of Andrew and Nancy (Smith)

Lynn, and her father came to Tennessee from South Carolina.



   One of the children of Christopher N. Carney and wife, Norfleet Lynn Carney,

was born on the old plantation in Montgomery county on September 21, 1854.

Beared in a home which knew many of the comforts and luxuries of the period, he

had liberal advantages for education. He was a member of the class of '78 in the

University of Tennessee, but left his studies in the junior year to enter the

medical department of Vanderbilt University, where he was graduated in medicine

in 1879. After more than a year of clinical experience in the hospital at

Nashville, he opened an office at Clarksville in 1880, and soon has a prosperous

practice. In 1890 he retired from the active work of his profession, and most of

his time since then has been devoted to business and public affairs. He was

president of the street railway and lighting company from 1896 to 1909, selling

his interests in the latter year. He is a director of the Clarksville National
Bank.



   Dr. Carney was married in 1888 to Miss Hattie Grinter, of Cadiz, Kentucky.

They are the parents of four children: Edwin L., now with the Dunlop Mill

Company; Norfleet L. Jr., a student in the engineering department of the

University of Tennessee; Clarence G., who is now in the garage business at

Clarksville; and Richard R., attending the Southwest Presbyterian University.

Mrs. Carney is a member of the Christian church. He has been president of the

board of directors of the local Knights of Pythias since its establishment.



   Dr. Carney gave his services to the government of his city in the office of

mayor for three terms, from 1892 to 1898. In politics he has always been a

Democrat, and is one of the influential party men in this part of the state.





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A history of Tennessee and Tennesseans : the leaders and representative men in

commerce, industry and modern activities

by Will T. Hale

Chicago:  Lewis Pub. Co.,  1913



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