John W. Barber

Jamestown Press
Jamestown, [Boone County] Indiana
Friday, 31 January 1902 page 3

John W. BARBER left for the Soldier's Home at Danville, Illinois, Tuesday, into which institution he has been admitted and where he will make his home, for a time at least. He is so afficted [sic] in his right shoulder and back, the effects of services in the army, that he is unable to work, and he hopes, under the care of physicians and surgeons there, to get relief and restoration sufficient to go into the field as a lecturer. Mr. BARBER has had an eventful career during the last several years of his residence in and about Jamestown [Boone County, Indiana]. He was a very assertive nature, so assertive, in fact that it was distinctively felt more than that of the majority of men by those who came in contact with him, either by socially or in a business way. He had his peculiarities (who of us who have not), but he is always ready to shame immorality and advocate and help public upbuilding [sic]. He was at one time fairly fixed in a worldly way, but misfortune overtook him and he went away with only a few dollars to his name. Mr. BARBER was born in Montgomery Co., one and a half miles east of Parkersburg [Montgomery Co. Indiana], in 1844; was removed to Hendricks Co. Four miles south west of here in 1848, and there resided until he went to war, during which time he was absent almost three years, but not to service all that time. While in the army he took very ill and nearly died, and that time they gave a man $20 to bring him home. His environments has been in and about Jamestown [Boone County, Indiana] since 1871, except he lived in Illinois from 1873 to 1879; been a member of the Christian Church 16 years.

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