EUGExNE J. BARNEY. 



The donor of Science Hall, Mr, Eugene J. ISarney, is the eldest 

 son of Kliam E. and Julia (Smith) Barney, and was born at Dayton, 

 Ohio, Frebiuary t2, 1839. His education was received in the public 

 schools of his native city and at Rochester University. Soon after 

 leaving college he turned his attention to business, purchasing an inter- 

 est in what was then known as the Barney & Smith Car Works. He 

 was gradually promoted through various positions of trust connected 

 with this large establishment and upon the death of his father in 1880 

 became its president. His sound judgment and ripe experience have 

 made him a valuable counsellor in business circles and he is officially 

 connected with a large number of important corporations at home and 

 elsewhere. 



Mr. Barney lives in an elegant home in the central portion of the 

 city, but still retains his membership in the Linden Avenue Baptist 

 Church, which he helped to establish as a mission of the First Baptist 

 Church in the days of his young manhood. Notwithstanding his 

 large business interests, he still finds time to devote to the duties of his 

 church and Sunday School, of which he was superintendent for many 

 years ; to the work of the Young Men's Christian Association and more 

 than one struggling young man in the city has been encouraged to right 

 living by the kind and thoughtful words of this Christian gentleman. 



On his twenty-third birthday, Mr. Barney was married to Miss M. 

 Belle Huffman, eldest daughter of the late William P. Huffman, for 

 many years an honored trustee and beloved benefactor of Denison Uni- 

 versity; and thus the future interest of the young man in that institution 

 of learning seems to have been doubly assured. What lasting impres- 

 sions were made upon his mind by the conferences of his father with 

 these friends and the elder Thresher to which he was admitted ! What 

 loyalty was inspired by their sacrifices in the early history of the col- 

 lege I What a monument is Science Hall of love toward a noble father 

 whose name was already inseparably linked with that history ! What 



