Charles Tracy Barney (January 27, 1851 – November 14, 1907) was the president of the Knickerbocker Trust Company, the collapse of which shortly before Barney's death sparked the Panic of 1907.[1]
Charles T. Barney was born on January 27, 1851, in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Ashbel H. Barney (1816–1886) and Susan (Tracy) Barney. His father was a successful forwarding and commission merchant.[2]
Barney married Laurinda Collins "Lily" Whitney, daughter of Brigadier General James Scollay Whitney and the former Laurinda Collins (a descendant of Plymouth governor William Bradford). She was the sister of William Collins Whitney, the patriarch of the Whitney family, industrialist Henry Melville Whitney, president of the Metropolitan Steamship Company,[22] and Susan Collins Whitney, married attorney Henry F. Dimock. The Barneys were the parents of two sons and two daughters:[23]
Ashbel Hinman Barney II (1876–1945), who was in charge of the holdings of his family through the Barney Estate Company.[24] James Whitney Barney (1878–1948) Gardiner Tracy Barney (1880–1887) Helen Tracy Barney (1882–1922), who married Archibald Stevens Alexander. After his death, she married Frederick N. Watriss. Katharine Lansing Barney (1885–1958), who married Courtlandt Dixon Barnes Marie Barney, who married Harry Newell Reynolds (d. 1917).[25]
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