Barnes, Henry

BARNES

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 11/13/2007 at 21:52:30

Henry Barnes

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.254, Waveland Twp.)
Henry Barnes, farmer, P. O. Elliott, Montgomery Co., Iowa, was born in Montpelier, Vt., August 16, 1836. His father, Henry Y. Barnes, was born in Vermont in 1796. He was a harness-maker, and died in Vermont in 1872. Subject's mother, Caroline (Yale) Barnes, was born in Chittenden County, Vt., about 1803, and died in Vermont in 1881. The parents had nine children, four of whom are living. Mr. Barnes began business as a harness-maker in 1857, in Vermont, and followed that trade twelve years. Then he moved to Iowa and became a farmer in Pottawattamie County in 1869, and has continued farming since. He has held divers offices in the township, such as Justice of the Peace, Trustee, etc., etc. he was married, first to Miss Mary E. Gentle, October 7, 1858; she was born in Canada in 1835, and died in Vermont in October, 1864; her parents are Hiram and Mary (Bateman) Gentle, natives of New York State. Mr. Barnes was married to Miss Emma S. Stratton, May 23, 1866. She was born in Greenwich, Mass., July 26, 1840; her father, Nathaniel H. Stratton, a silver-plater, was born in Rutland, Mass., February 12, 1818; her mother, Susan H. (Legg) Stratton, was born in Orange, Mass., November 25, 1816. Mr. Barnes has three children by his first wife - Henry, born July 21, 1859; Charles, born November 1, 1861; and Fred, born December 3, 1863. By his second wife Mr. Barnes has two children - Frank, born June 30, 1867; and Nellie, born October 21, 1877. Mr. Barnes bought eighty acres in Pottawattamie County, Iowa in May 1869, at about $7.50 per acre; he now has 185 acres, valued at $35 per acre. The family of Mr. Barnes are members of the Congregational Church. He is a Republican.