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unusual facts about Albert W. Barney


State v. Elliott

, and Albert W. Barney, C.J. (ret.) and Peck, J. (ret.), specially assigned


Albert Grant

Albert W. Grant (1856–1930), admiral of the United States Navy during World War I

Albert Hawkes

Albert W. Hawkes, a United States Senator from New Jersey in office from January 3, 1943 – January 3, 1949.

Albert W. Cretella

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1958 to the Eighty-sixth Congress and for election in 1960 to the Eighty-seventh Congress, after which he returned to the practice of law.

Cretella was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-third and to the two succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1953-January 3, 1959).

Albert W. Hawkes

He was a trustee of the Freedoms Foundation, where the Hawkes Library (in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania) was named after him.

His daughter in law, Jane White Hawkes, was the second wife of Alistair Cooke, the British-American journalist and host of Masterpiece Theater.

Albert W. Hicks

He was portrayed as a wax figure who apparently comes to life and commits a murder, in an episode of The Twilight Zone, The New Exhibit.

There are several discrepancies between this account and that found in Herbert Asbury's classic crime history The Gangs of New York - an Informal History of the Underworld (1928, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.)

Albert W. Sherer, Jr.

After that in 1949 to 1951, he was political officer in Budapest, Hungary.

Ashbel H. Barney

Also present were Barney's son and daughter with Morris K. Jesup, Theodore Wood, Salem H. Wales, Darius Ogden Mills, Benjamin Brewster, Parker Handy, Dr. T. Gaillard Thomas, Peter F. Baker, Duncan Cryden, Charles Atterbury, Hugh Murdock, Louis Murdock, James H. Thompson, Charles H. Adams, George C. Magoun, Russell Sturgis (son-in-law of Danford N. Barney), Appleton Sturgis (son of Russell Sturgis), A. Bancroft and W.P. Seymour.

Charles Barney

Charles T. Barney (1850–1907), President of the Knickerbocker Trust Company

Charles D. Barney

At the time of his death, Barney was among the oldest living veterans of the American Civil War.

After two years, Barney moved to Philadelphia, where he married Laura E. Cooke, the daughter of prominent Philadelphia financier Jay Cooke, joining the firm of Jay Cooke & Company Following the collapse of his father-in-law's Philadelphia banking house, in 1873, Barney reorganized the firm as Chas.

Charles T. Barney

In 1907, the Knickerbocker entered into a deal organized by speculators F. Augustus Heinze and Charles W. Morse to corner the market of the United Copper Company.

Henry F. Dimock

He married Susan Collins Whitney, whose siblings included Henry Melville Whitney, industrialist; William Collins Whitney, financier and Secretary of the Navy: and Lucy Collins "Lily" Whitney, wife of banker Charles T. Barney.

Kinjiro Okabe

He had become very interested in the magnetron, built and named by Albert W. Hull at General Electric in 1921.

Metropolitan Steamship Company

Other members of the family eventually became financially interested in the company, including Whitney's younger son, William Collins Whitney, and his sons-in-law, Henry F. Dimock and Charles T. Barney.

The New Exhibit

The dispirited Martin asks one request; to spare the wax figures of Jack the Ripper, Albert W. Hicks, Henri Désiré Landru, William Burke and William Hare.

William Ellsworth Kepner

On 29 July, the balloon ascended with himself and two fellow US Army Air Force officers, Capt. Albert W. Stevens and Capt. Orvil A. Anderson as crew.


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