ALBERT T. BARNES
Albert T. Barnes was born in Putnam county, Ohio, January 19, 1853. His parents, Daniel and Hannah Barnes, moved, in 1860, to Warren county, Illinois, and in 1874, came to Cass county. The family consisted of Mr. and Mrs. Barnes and six children--Jacob W., Albert T., Julia A., Lizzie, Rhoda D. and Ida May. They settled in Brighton township, where the parents still live, engaged in farming. The subject of this sketch lived with his parents until his marriage, December 25, 1811, to Emily L. Humphrey, a native of Warren county, Illinois. She was born March 1, 1861. They settled at the time of their marriage, on a farm owned by Henry Crow, in Brighton township, where they lived two years, then rented land of Isaac Dickerson, in section 9, of Atlantic township, on which they lived three years. Mr. Barnes then purchased his present home on section 9, Bear Grove township. It contains eighty acres and is the place improved by William Farmer. Mr. and Mrs. Barnes have one son--Willie Leonard, born November 28, 1878.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 720, 725.
