BIOGRAPHY OF DAVID BLAKE VARNEY of Manchester NH ------------------------------------ Information located at http://www.nh.searchroots.com/Manchester On a web site about GENEALOGY AND HISTORY OF MANCHESTER NEW HAMPSHIRE TRANSCRIBED BY JANICE BROWN Please see the web site for my email contact. ---------------------------------- The original source of this information is in the public domain, however use of this text file, other than for personal use, is restricted without written permission from the transcriber (who has edited, compiled and added new copyrighted text to same). ======================================================== SOURCE: Manchester, A Brief Record of its Past and A Picture of Its Present, including an account of is settlement and its growth as town and city; a history of its schools, churches, societies, banks, post-offices, newspapers and manufactures; a description of its government, police and fire department, public buildings, library, water-works, cemeteries, streets, streams, railways and bridges; a complete list of the selectmen, moderators and clerks of the town and members of the councils, marshals and engineers of the city, with the state of the cote for mayor at each election; the story of its part in the war of the rebellion with a complete list of its soldiers who went ot the war; and sketches of its representative citizens; Manchester N.H.; John B. Clark; 1875 ------------------- page 438 **** D.B. VARNEY **** David Blake Varney was born in Tuftonborough NH, August 27, 1822. He is the son of Luther and Lydia (Blake) Varney, and was one of four children, two sons and two daughters, of whom, besides himself, one brother survives--Edward, who resides in Boston [MA]. When four years of age he moved with his parents to Dover NH, where he remained until he was sixteen years of age, helping his father upon the farm and acquiring an education in the Dover schools. In 1838 he went to Portsmouth [NH] to learn the trade of a machinist, where he spent three years. Then returning to Dover, he worked two years there and in March 1843, came to this city and worked at his trade in the Amoskeag Company's machine-shop. In 1854 he was appointed superintendent of the locomotive department and remained in the shop until 1857. He then entered into partnership with H.I. Darling, for the manufacture of brass and copper work, and the firm, under the name of Darling & Varney, began business in the foundry on Manchester Street. Dr. Darling died in 1868 and left him proprietor of an extensive business, which he has since managed alone. Mr. Varney was a member from ward three in this city of the popular branch of the legislature in 1871 and 1872 and has been a director of the Amoskeag National Bank since January 1874. He married in 1848 Harriet B. Kimball of this city, by whom he has had three daughters, of whom two are now living-- Emma L. and Annie M. Mr. Varney has been a very popular man with all who knew him ever since he came to this city. His mental qualities are all good and practical and always at his command. Indebted to his own skill and forethought for his pecuniary success, liberal and genial, he has always been a highly respected citizen. He is a man who could obtain the suffrages of the people whenever he would allow his name to be used, but he has never been ambitious to hold a conspicuous place in public affairs. (end)