PORTAGE COUNTY OHIO
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File contributed to the Ohio Biographies Project by:
Betty Ralph
bralph@HiWAAY.net
February 2, 2000
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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

GEORGE BARNETT, miller, Kent, was born in the County of Sussex, England,
July 7, 1821; son of John and Susan (Roberts) Barnett.  He was reared and
educated and learned the miller’s trade in his native county, where he
served an apprenticeship of three and a half years, after which he worked as
a journeyman in Epson, Barnstead, Banbury and Elhialsham.  In 1851 he came
to America, locating at Cuyahoga Falls, where he worked in Van Tine’s mill
for nearly a year.  He then settled in Kent and worked in the Kent Flouring
Mills up to 1865, when he rented the mills, and with the exception of three
years, has been proprietor up to the present time.  This mill was built by
Marvin Kent, and is one of the best and most substantial in the State,
having four run of stone with a capacity of 1,500 barrels of flour per week.
Mr. Barnett was married, February 25, 1866, to Lucina, daughter of Jonathan
Thorngate, of Stowe Township, Summit Co., Ohio, by whom he has two children:
Fanny and Clara Belle.  He has served two terms as member of the Council of
Kent; is one of the directors of the co-operative store; in politics a Democrat.