Barney, William Bedford, 1781-1838

William Bedford Barney was born in Philadelphia, the son of Commodore Joshua Barney and Anne Bedford Barney. He was one of the first U.S. Marine Corps officers, a Major of Dragoons in the War of 1812, and served as U.S. Consul in Trieste in 1817. In 1818, he was appointed Naval Officer of the Port of Baltimore, replacing his father. He was an author, and in 1829, published Par of weights, or, Table of the relative proportions actually existing between the weights of foreign commercial countries, and those of the United States. In 1799, he married Rebecca Ridgely in Baltimore, and they had three children. He then married Mary Chase Barney on September 9, 1808 in Princeton, New Jersey. He's buried at Old Saint Pauls Cemetery in Baltimore.