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From Wolfe's history of Clinton County, Iowa (1911)
A. E. BARBER.
One who is interested in the history of Clinton county could spend a few hours very pleasantly talking with A. E. Barber, a well known and successful farmer of Orange township, for he has spent his life here and has grown up with the county, his individual career and the history of his locality being interwoven. He has come down to us from the days of the first settler and has played well his part in the general work of transforming the country from a wild prairie to what is today, one of the choice agricultural sections of the Union. Improvement and progress may be said to form the keynote of his character and he is a man whom to know is to accord the fullest respect, for his life has been without the shadow or suspicion of underhanded dealings.
Mr. Barber was born March 27, 1845. on the old Barber homestead in Orange township, Clinton county, being the son of Nathaniel and Mary (Pearsall) Barber, mentioned elsewhere in this work.
He grew to maturity on the home farm and when but a lad was put to work in the fields, attending the neighboring schools during the winter months, and he has made general farming and stock raising his life work, succeeding well at both, and, having accumulated a competency through his habits of thrift and good management, he has retired from active work, leaving the management of his fine farm to his son.
On December 24, 1868, Mr. Barber was united in the bonds of matrimony with Celia M. Phillip, who was born in Illinois, the daughter of Oliver H. and Mary (Robinson) Phillip, who spent their early lives in New York state and were married there, then moved to the state of Illinois, later coming to Clinton county, Iowa, where Mr. Phillip bought a farm, becoming well established and lived many years in Orange township. Mr. Phillip's death occurred in 1868, he being survived thirty years by his wife, who died in 1898.
To Mr. and Mrs. Barber one child has been born, Clarence, whose birth occurred on January 28, 1871. He received a good education and has de-
As printed in Wolfe's history of Clinton County, Iowa (1911). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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