From "Athens Home Coming," 1904. (out of copyright)
Born at Long Plains, Mass., February 17, 1779, and was a lineal descendant of Robert Barker, who came to Plymouth Colony in 1630. In 1789 he came with his father's family to Ohio and settled near Belpre, where he spent nine years of his life amid the most exciting events of that period, as during that time the Indian War of 1790 to 1794 occurred when families, shut up in blockhouses, were beset by the pangs of hunger and suffered the loss of dear ones at the hands of the cruel savages. For friends and neighbors they had such prominent families as the Putnams, Devols, Smiths, Danas, Stones, Cooks and many others. In 1798 the family removed to Athens, then only a small village and for some three years he was proprietor of a hotel which stood where the old "Brown House" was located. He was a man of great natural ability, and his education was acquired by private study. As a citizen and public man, he held high place in the community. He served ten years as Associate Judge of the Common Pleas Court. He also held the office of Sheriff of the County, Treasurer of the County and Collector of College Rents for many years. He died March 30, 1873, at the remarkable age of ninety-four.
Son of Isaac , Sr. & Rhoda (Cooke) Barker. Ref. : "History of Hocking Valley" (Ohio), by Inter-State Publ. Co., Chicago, 1883.
Contributor: Dorothy Alvis (46492593) • [email protected])
Born at Long Plains, Mass., February 17, 1779, and was a lineal descendant of Robert Barker, who came to Plymouth Colony in 1630. In 1789 he came with his father's family to Ohio and settled near Belpre, where he spent nine years of his life amid the most exciting events of that period, as during that time the Indian War of 1790 to 1794 occurred when families, shut up in blockhouses, were beset by the pangs of hunger and suffered the loss of dear ones at the hands of the cruel savages. For friends and neighbors they had such prominent families as the Putnams, Devols, Smiths, Danas, Stones, Cooks and many others. In 1798 the family removed to Athens, then only a small village and for some three years he was proprietor of a hotel which stood where the old "Brown House" was located. He was a man of great natural ability, and his education was acquired by private study. As a citizen and public man, he held high place in the community. He served ten years as Associate Judge of the Common Pleas Court. He also held the office of Sheriff of the County, Treasurer of the County and Collector of College Rents for many years. He died March 30, 1873, at the remarkable age of ninety-four.
Son of Isaac , Sr. & Rhoda (Cooke) Barker. Ref. : "History of Hocking Valley" (Ohio), by Inter-State Publ. Co., Chicago, 1883.
Contributor: Dorothy Alvis (46492593) • [email protected])
From "Athens Home Coming," 1904. (out of copyright)
Born at Long Plains, Mass., February 17, 1779, and was a lineal descendant of Robert Barker, who came to Plymouth Colony in 1630. In 1789 he came with his father's family to Ohio and settled near Belpre, where he spent nine years of his life amid the most exciting events of that period, as during that time the Indian War of 1790 to 1794 occurred when families, shut up in blockhouses, were beset by the pangs of hunger and suffered the loss of dear ones at the hands of the cruel savages. For friends and neighbors they had such prominent families as the Putnams, Devols, Smiths, Danas, Stones, Cooks and many others. In 1798 the family removed to Athens, then only a small village and for some three years he was proprietor of a hotel which stood where the old "Brown House" was located. He was a man of great natural ability, and his education was acquired by private study. As a citizen and public man, he held high place in the community. He served ten years as Associate Judge of the Common Pleas Court. He also held the office of Sheriff of the County, Treasurer of the County and Collector of College Rents for many years. He died March 30, 1873, at the remarkable age of ninety-four.
Son of Isaac , Sr. & Rhoda (Cooke) Barker. Ref. : "History of Hocking Valley" (Ohio), by Inter-State Publ. Co., Chicago, 1883.
Contributor: Dorothy Alvis (46492593) • [email protected])
Born at Long Plains, Mass., February 17, 1779, and was a lineal descendant of Robert Barker, who came to Plymouth Colony in 1630. In 1789 he came with his father's family to Ohio and settled near Belpre, where he spent nine years of his life amid the most exciting events of that period, as during that time the Indian War of 1790 to 1794 occurred when families, shut up in blockhouses, were beset by the pangs of hunger and suffered the loss of dear ones at the hands of the cruel savages. For friends and neighbors they had such prominent families as the Putnams, Devols, Smiths, Danas, Stones, Cooks and many others. In 1798 the family removed to Athens, then only a small village and for some three years he was proprietor of a hotel which stood where the old "Brown House" was located. He was a man of great natural ability, and his education was acquired by private study. As a citizen and public man, he held high place in the community. He served ten years as Associate Judge of the Common Pleas Court. He also held the office of Sheriff of the County, Treasurer of the County and Collector of College Rents for many years. He died March 30, 1873, at the remarkable age of ninety-four.
Son of Isaac , Sr. & Rhoda (Cooke) Barker. Ref. : "History of Hocking Valley" (Ohio), by Inter-State Publ. Co., Chicago, 1883.
Contributor: Dorothy Alvis (46492593) • [email protected])
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