BARBER, Nathaniel

BARBER, PERSALL, WHITE

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Date: 10/16/2001 at 21:02:50

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF ORANGE TWP. (Pgs 758-764)
From the book "The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P. Allen (1879)

NATHANIEL BARBER, farmer, Sec. 29; P. O. Grand Mound; owns 350 acres; was born near Syracuse, N. Y., in 1809; he removed to Pennsylvania in 1832, where he lived about five years; then went to Dixon, Ill., where he resided one year; he came to Clinton Co. and made a claim of the farm where he now lives, in 1837, where he settled the following year. He married Mary A. Persall, born in Chenango Co., N. Y., 1817; her parents came to Clinton Co. with Mr. Barber, in 1838; he has five children—Mary E. White, William R., Eugene, George W. and Albert.