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MISSISSIPPI RIVER FOLK BACKGROUND
DENNIS BARNES When Dennis was 19 years old he left his home for Troy, N. Y., where he shipped aboard a sloop on the Hudson River two years. He then shipped on a schooner running between New York and Charleston, S. C. Then made a trip to the East Indies which took him one year. In the fall of 1832 he shipped for New Orleans, when he embarked in the steamboat business, which he followed for 11 years.
This bio was extracted from the "History of Scott County" by Interstate Publishing Company, Chicago: Iowa Interstate Publishing Company, 1882.