This is a transcription of the Miranda (Barney) Tulloch biography from New Hampshire Women: A Collection of Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Daughters and Residents of the Granite State, Who are Worthy Representatives of their Sex in the Various Walks and Conditions of Life, The New Hampshire Publishing Co., Concord, NH, 1895, page 237.
Miranda (Barney) Tulloch
MRS. MIRANDA TULLOCH, daughter of Ahira and Elizabeth Pillsbury Barney, was born in Grafton, December 18, 1835. Her great-great-grandfather, Aaron Barney, with five others, bought the entire township of Grafton; and her grandfather, Jacob Barney, was the first child born in the place. Her great-great-grandfather, Edward Evans of Salisbury, was a graduate of Oxford University, England, and a distinguished officer in the Revolutionary War. His commission as Adjutant, 2d Reg., N. H. Militia, is dated July 18, 1777, and signed by Meshech Weare, President of the State Council, at Exeter. Miss Barney studied at the Fisherville, Andover, and Canaan academies, and finished at Sainte Marie, Canada. She was married to Charles R. Swain of Belmont, who died in 1862. In 1863 she went to Washington in the service of the New Hampshire Soldiers’ Aid Association, and labored earnestly until the close of the war. She married in 1866 Hon. Thomas L. Tulloch of Portsmouth, one of the most prominent citizens of her native state, and continued to reside in Washington, where her husband held prominent government positions. Mr. Tulloch died in 1883, and their child, Henry V. Tulloch, is now a student at Princeton University. Mrs. Tulloch passes her winters in her pleasant home in Washington, and her summers in travel, of which she is very fond. She has been several years President of the Ladies’ Aid Association of the Metropolitan M. E. Church, of which she is a member; President of the District Home Missionary Society; officially connected with the Garfield Memorial Hospital; Deaconess, Home and Sibley Hospital; Children’s Hospital: Training School for Nurses; Woman’s Christian Association; Old People’s Home: Foreign Missionary Society, etc.; Vice-president-General of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and an active member of the Anthropological Societies. Mrs. Tulloch is a woman of strong character and marked executive abilities.