PORTAGE COUNTY OHIO
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File contributed to the Ohio Biographies Project by:
Betty Ralph
bralph@HiWAAY.net
December 1, 1999
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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

EDWIN BARBER, retired farmer, P.O. Brimfield, was born in Litchfield, Conn.,
June 28, 1797; son of Joseph and Abigail (Coe) Barber.  On May 8, 1819, he
arrived in Brimfield Township, this county, but in January, 1820, revisited
Connecticut, returning to Brimfield Township in 1822, and settling on the
farm where he now resides and which he cleared and improved.  He was
married, August 5, 1823, to Elvira, daughter of Nathan and Sarah Benedict,
of Cornwall, Conn., by whom he had three children:  Frederick (deceased),
Oziaris, and Elvira (deceased).  Ozias is a resident of Akron, Ohio, and
married to Harriet Campbell, of Tallmadge.  Mr. Barber is one of the few
pioneers now left in Brimfield Township.  After a wedded life of nearly
sixty-one years, he lost his wife, who died, May 9, 1884, in her
eighty-second year.  Mr. Barber has been a member of the Baptist Church over
fifty years.  He has been Justice of the Peace of Brimfield Township one
term.  In politics he is a Republican.