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Counties of PORTER and Lake Indiana.
Historical and Biographical
Weston A. Goodspeed, Historical Editor
Charles Blanchard, Biographical Editor
F. A. Battey & Co., Pub., Chicago - 1882

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        WILLIAM J. BARNES was born in Somerset County, Penn., September 10,
     1829.  He was the third child of a family of thirteen born to ASAHEL
     and AMY (WATTS) BARNES; twelve of this family are yet living, our
     subject and a sister residing in this county.  The parents of our
     subject moved from Pennsylvania to Canada when he was very young, and
     there resided till 1860, when the family scattered.  His mother died
     in 1863, his father being alive in Michigan, and in his eighty-second
     year.  Our subject began at fourteen years of age to work by the
     month, and so continued until eighteen years old, when he learned the
     carpenter trade.  In 1851 and 1852, he traveled through the West,
     trading with the Indians, and working one season on the Mississippi
     River.  He came to Porter County on December 29, 1854, settling in
     Prattville, where he worked as a carpenter five years, and then set-
     tled on his present farm of 133 acres.  He was married November 25,
     1855, to MARGARET J. BABCOCK, who was born in Porter County November
     7, 1836; she is a daughter of CLARK BABCOCK, an early settler.  To
     this union five children were born - AMY A., wife of WILLIAM STONER,
     of Washington Township; CARRIE J., wife of LUCIAN CRUMPACKER, of
     Butler County, Neb.; MARTHA S., IRA C. and DALE E.  Mr. BARNES is a
     member of the Grand Temperance Council of Indiana, and one of the
     Porter County committee of workers for temperance reform.  Politi-
     cally, he is a Republican.

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