Geneva County AlArchives Biographies.....Barnett, William W. August 28 1859 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   WILLIAM W. BARNETT. -One of the most enterprising young business men of
Geneva, Ala., is William W. Barnett, junior member of the firm of Bean &
Barnett, merchants. He was born in Bullock county, Ala., August 28th, 1859, near
Union Springs, and is a son of Burton W. and Sarah (Dozier) Barnett, who were
both natives of Georgia. Burton W. Barnett was an early settler of Bullock
county, Ala., where he purchased large tracts of land and engaged heavily in
planting. While William W. was yet a boy, his father moved to Union Springs,
where he lived in partial retirement, giving only such of his' time and
attention as were absolutely needed to the superintendency of his extensive
plantations. He was a member of the Missionary Baptist church, and in politics
was a democrat, but never an office-seeker. A Mason of good standing, he was
noted for his upright ways and honest methods. His death occurred in 1886. Mrs.
Sarah Barnett was a child when she was brought by her parents to Alabama, where
she was married at the age of sixteen, and became the mother of eight children,
four of whom are still living. In early life she became a member of the
Missionary Baptist church, and died in its faith in 1884. William W. Barnett
attended school at Union Springs until nineteen years of age, and then entered
the Eastman Business college, at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., from which he graduated at
the close of a term of five months. Returning to Union Springs, he accepted a
clerkship in the store of Wilson & McIver, which position he resigned at the
close of five years to accept a similar position with Knowles & Warner, of
Montgomery, with whom he remained two years. He then returned once more to Union
Springs, met with and formed a partnership with Aaron W. Bean, under the firm
name of Bean & Barnett, and opened up a store of general merchandise at Post
Oak, in Bullook county, and conducted the business at that place for three
years, when they packed up their stock and moved to Geneva, where success still
attends them. In the spring of 1892 the firm erected a new store building,
30x100 feet, equipped with modern conveniences, including a large, light and
airy glass front, and stocked with goods valued at from $5,000 to $8,000. They
handle cotton and other farm products in their season, and general merchandise,
doing a trade of $25,000 to $30,000 per annum. Mr. Barnett is still a young man
and single, but he contributes liberally to the support of schools and churches,
being a member of the Missionary Baptist congregation; in politics he is a
democrat, and he is a strong friend of railroads and other improvements that
have a tendency to develop the commerce and increase the revenues of
southeastern Alabama.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 1030-1031
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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