PORTAGE COUNTY OHIO
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File contributed to the Ohio Biographies Project by:
Betty Ralph
bralph@HiWAAY.net
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Copyright © 1999 by  Betty Ralph. This copy contributed for use in
the OH Biographies Project.  bralph@hiwaay.net


from "History of Portage County, Ohio" published by Warner, Beers & Co., 
Chicago, 1885

ALLEN A. BARBER, merchant, Mantua Station, was born May 1, 1833, in Freedom
Township, this county; son of Capt. Harmon and Lucena (Daniels) Barber,
natives of Ohio.  Capt. Harmon Barber, an eccentric citizen, was elected to
the command of a company of militia after the war of 1812, and proved
himself to be one of the best commanders of the day.  He was one of sixteen
children, and he himself raised a family, whose names are Calvin, married to
Louise, sister of Gen. Leggett, and residing in Iowa; Allen A.; Chester T.,
married to Ursula Halstead, also in Iowa; Brewster O., died in
Garrettsville, Ohio, of disease contracted in the army, during the late war
of the Rebellion (he was married to Ann Henry); Polly (deceased).  Our
subject was married January 9, 1856, to Helen, daughter of William and Chloe
McClintock, by whom he had four children:  Fred A., married to Florence
Burroughs; Will H.; Frank M. and George A.  Mr. Barber for many years has
been a member of the firm of Barber & Smith, one of the oldest in
Garretsville or Portage County, and for a long period was senior member of
the firm of Barber & Sons, of Mantua.  He is a Knight Templar, and W.M. of
Mantua Lodge, No. 533, and was the first Odd Fellow initiated in
Garrettsville Lodge.