DANIEL E. BARRICK.

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         General farming and stock-raising engross the attention of Daniel E. Barrick, who is the owner of a fine farm of one hundred and twenty acres on sections 26 and 34, Marshall township. His birth occurred in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, on the 5th of October, 1866, his parents being George W. and Mary Jane (Mixell) Barrick. The mother has passed away, but the father is living at the age of seventy years and now makes his home in Wapello, having come to Louisa county in 1902. Unto Mr. and Mrs. George W. Barrick there were born six children: Harvey, who is deceased; Laura Bell, the wife of D. S. Devore, who is a resident of Louisa county; Daniel E., our subject; Samuel C., also a resident of this county; Susan R., the wife of Adam Henderson, of Green Springs, Pennsylvania; and Merven E., who is living in Boulder, Colorado. For his second wife the father chose Mrs. Susan (Griffin) Reese, and to them were born two daughters: Lillian Gertrude, who became the wife of Wilbur Stoner, of Carlisle, Pennsylvania; and Cora E., who is living in Wapello.

         Daniel E. Barrick laid aside his text-books after the mastery of the common branches, for which purpose he attended the district schools, and at the age of twenty years he began his business career as an agriculturist. In 1891, feeling that he knew enough regarding farming to warrant his beginning for himself, he rented two hundred and forty acres of land in Warren county, Illinois. He met with such success in the cultivation of this that in 1899 he had the . . .

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. . . requisite capital to enable him to buy his present place. However, he continued to cultivate rented property for two years thereafter, removing to his Iowa farm in 1902. Here he has resided ever since, during which time he has effected many improvements upon his place. He has erected a fine two story, ten room modern house, good barns and outbuildings, by which he has greatly added to the attractive appearance and value of his property. His fields are well drained and substantially fenced, as well as carefully cultivated, and as a result he reaps abundant harvests. He devotes attention to the raising of Shropshire sheep, in addition to which he is quite an extensive feeder.

         On the 25th of February, 1891, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Barrick and Miss M. DeEtte Smith, a daughter of Samuel Hayden and Mary Ann (Tinkham) Smith. Her father is a native of Ohio but her mother was born in Illinois. Mrs. Smith died in March, 1908, and Mr. Smith is now living retired in Kirkwood, Illinois. To them were born four children, those beside Mrs. Barrick being as follows: Jessie, the wife of T. J. Callahan, who is a resident of Wapello; Frederick Hayden, of Warren county, Illinois; and Edna Fay, the deceased wife of Charles Cannell, of Monmouth, Illinois.

         Mr. and Mrs. Barrick have become the parents of three children: Fern Marie, who was born on the 15th of May, 1892; Ray, born on the 18th of March, 1894; and Leslie Clair, who was born on the 17th of February, 1896, and died on the 5th of September, 1897.

         The religious faith of the family is manifested through their membership in the Methodist Episcopal church and Mr. Barrick is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America. His political allegiance he has never accorded to any party, always having cast his ballot in support of those men and measures he deemed best adapted to meet the requirements of the situation. Progressive and enterprising, he is in every way a modern agriculturist and is meeting the reward of capable supervision and judicious management in lucrative returns.