History of Bay County, Michigan, and representative citizens; . avorable light and a bountyof 10 cents was granted. In i860. Judge Birney was nominated bythe Republican State Convention for the officeof Lieutenant-Governor and was elected by amajority of It was during his term inthis office that he was appointed to a vacancyon the circuit bench, and he filled this positionfor the next four years, his jurisdiction em-bracing Saginaw, Gratiot, Isabella, Midland,Iosco and Bay counties. After the expirationof his term, he was unanimously renominatedby the Republican Judicial Convention, bu
History of Bay County, Michigan, and representative citizens; . avorable light and a bountyof 10 cents was granted. In i860. Judge Birney was nominated bythe Republican State Convention for the officeof Lieutenant-Governor and was elected by amajority of It was during his term inthis office that he was appointed to a vacancyon the circuit bench, and he filled this positionfor the next four years, his jurisdiction em-bracing Saginaw, Gratiot, Isabella, Midland,Iosco and Bay counties. After the expirationof his term, he was unanimously renominatedby the Republican Judicial Convention, but thedistrict had become so largely Democratic thathe was defeated. He then resumed the prac-tice of the law and took part in nearly all theimportant litigation of that time. In 1871 heestablished the Bay City Chronicle, which wasissued as a daily in 1873 and its publication wascontinued until after his departure for TheHague, in 1876, when it was merged into theBay City Tribune. In 1872, Governor Baldwin nominatedJudge Birney to President Grant as centennial. REV. H. J. H. SCHUTJES AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS. 411 commissisoner for Michigan, to celebrate thelooth anniversary of the Declaration of Inde-pendence in 1876. He failed to serve in thiscapacity as he had been appointed by the Pres-ident, on December 17, 1875, ^^ United StatesjMinister to the Netherlands and he departedfor The Hague in 1876. This honor wasgreeted with satisfaction by his fellow-citizenswho appreciated how valuable his services hadbeen to Michigan. He did much for his local-ity and State, one act being the securing of thefirst railroad in Bay City. Judge Birney had five children: James G.,Arthur Moulton, Sophia Hull (Blackwell),Alice (Mrs. Frank Blackwell) and one childthat died in infancy.
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