Haney remained in Batavia until a disastrous fire in February 1850 persuaded him to move permanently to Milwaukee with his family.
[2] A contemporary book written on the history of Milwaukee describes Haney in the following manner: He is a man of marked peculiarities of character.
In person he is above the medium height is well formed very muscular and when in his prime must have been a very powerful man He is possessed of an excellent constitution and although well up to 70 years of age is remarkably active.
He is strictly temperate and requires the same of all his employes Haney was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly for the 1861 term as a Democrat.
This article incorporates text from the 1909 edition of Memoirs of Milwaukee County, by Jerome Anthony Watrous which is in the public domain in the United States.