The president of the Carney and Brown Coal Company, of Dunmore, Pennsylvania, is John Carney, with whose life this brief account will concern itself. Son of Michael and Winifred (Connell) Carney, he was born in Ireland, 29 Jan 1843, and when he was five years of age was brought to the United States and to Dunmore, Pennsylvania, by his parents. In this latter locality he was educated, after the completion of his schooling entering the employ of the Delaware & Lackawanna Railroad Company, later becoming identified with the service of the Pennsylvania Coal Company, and following that the Gravity Railroad. For more than twenty years he was then a railroad engineer, in 1888 resigning from the railroad service and associating himself with coal dealing, in which he now engages as the president of Carney and Brown Coal Company, of which he has been the head since its organization. His entire active life has been passed in Dunmore, which has been his home for sixty-five years, and there he has been connected with numerous enterprises and movements for the advancement and welfare of that place. School improvement is a form of municipal responsibility in which he has worthily borne his part, having served as school director and for three years as school controller. He holds membership in St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, and belongs to the Knights of Columbus.
Mr Carney married (first) Mary Caveny, a native of Ohio, and had two children, Mary and Sara; (second) Catherine Fitzpatrick, of Jefferson township, Lackawanna county, Pennsylvania, and has one daughter, Helen.