BUTLER COUNTY OHIO *********************************************************************** File contributed & permission given for use in the Ohio Biographies Project by Nancy Sween & the submitter Butler County OHGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohbutler *********************************************************************** * A History and Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County Ohio, With Illustrations and Sketches of its Representative Men and Pioneers Cincinnati Ohio. Western Biographical Publishing Company, 1882. John C. BARCALOW, the landlord of the Central House, was born in this county April 11, 1830. His parents were John and Nancy BARCALOW, both now dead. He was married in Warren County on the 29th of October, 1851, to Elizabeth A. EMLEY, daughter of David and Sarah EMLEY. She is a native of Warren County. Mr. and Mrs. BARCALOW have had twelve children. Anna E. SCHAFFER was born April 24, 1855; Ada E. SPITLER, August 15, 1856; Georgetta, July 11, 1858; David E., May 15, 1860; Kate E., May 12, 1862; John B., March 4, 1864; C. M., November 17, 1866; Sallie E., January 3, 1869; Harry and Carrie, March 31, 1871; Louraine R., July 31, 1873, and Richard E., September 10, 1875. Mr. BARCALOW was a member of Company E, One Hundred and Fifty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served in the hundred days' call in West Virginia without hearing a gun fired.