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Cleveland and Toledo Rail-Road Co. Issued to and Signed by D.N. Barney - Autogra:
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Stock issued to and signed on back by D.N. Barney. Danford Newton Barney (March 4, 1808 " March 8, 1874) was an American expressman who served as president of Wells Fargo & Company from 1853 to 1866. Barney was born in 1808 at Henderson, New York, the son of John Barney (1775"1863) and Sarah (ne Grow) Barney. His father was a farmer in Jefferson County, New York, when Danford and his younger brother Ashbel were born. He was a descendant of Jacob Barney of Bradenham, Buckinghamshire, England, who settled at Salem, Massachusetts, about 1630. Through his brother, he was uncle to Charles T. Barney, the president of the Knickerbocker Trust Company, the collapse of which shortly before Barney's death sparked the Panic of 1907. As a young man, Barney went to Sacketts Harbor, New York, where he was cashier in a bank. In 1842, Barney and his brother, Ashbel, went to Cleveland, Ohio, and engaged in business as forwarding and commission merchants as Danford N. Barney & Company. Barney resided in Cleveland at 24 Public Square and later 169 Euclid Street. In 1849, Barney moved to Buffalo, New York, where he was a commission merchant and proprietor of a bank. When Edwin Barber Morgan resigned as president of Wells Fargo & Company on November 26, 1853, Barney was elected to succeed him. He was also elected to the board of directors, of which he remained a member until 1870. In 1856, he moved to New York City. Besides serving a Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.