John F. Barber

As printed in 1910

JOHN FREDERICK BARBER.

Descended from honored pioneer ancestry and carrying forward in a practical and successful manner the work so thoroughly inaugurated by his predecessors, the subject of this sketch is entitled to specific mention in a work purporting to deal with the representative citizens of Nodaway county. Mr. Barber was born September 4, 1878, at Burr Oak Grove, in Monroe township, this county, and is a son of Alfred Charles and Ann (Costen) Barber, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this work, therefore no further mention of them will be made here. John F. Barber spent his boyhood years on the home farm and secured a good practical education in the public schools. When seventeen years old he accompanied the family on their removal to Colorado, and on their return to this county he also came and bought a farm in the neighborhood from which they had moved. In 1903 the subject bought the farm on which he now resides and which is located in the south part of section 13, in southwestern Monroe township. Here he has diligently applied himself to the cultivation of this tract and his efforts have been rewarded with a due meed of success. He has made many permanent and substantial improvements, and today the place is numbered among the attractive farmsteads of Xodaway county. Mr. Barber raises all the crops common to this section of the country and also devotes some attention to the raising of livestock, which also has proven a source of considerable revenue. He is up-to-date in his methods, his progressive spirit leading him to adopt new methods when in his judgment their practicability has been demonstrated by experience. He is ambitious and is a steady and persistent worker, his greatest desire being to make a comfortable home for his family and to retain in the neighborhood the good opinion of his neighbors — a good will which he has won by a correct life and industrious habits.

On May 30, 1909, Mr. Barber married Myrtie Evonia Mast, the daughter of John and Adelene Mast, pioneers of Nodaway county whose sketch ap years elsewhere in this work. Fraternally, Mr. Barber is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in the work of which he takes an appreciative interest. Every movement which promises to benefit the community, morally, educationally, socially or materially, finds in him an earnest supporter and he is numbered among the stanch and influential citizens of Monroe township.

As printed in Past and present of Nodaway County, Missouri (1910). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.