Biography of Percy Harrison Barker, St Francis County, AR

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        Date: 19 Nov 2008
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The Forrest City Times' Art Souvenir-1905: 

Percy Harrison Barker, of whom the halftone is a splendid likeness, is a native
of Louisiana, and was born in Shreveport on June 1, 1866, soon after removing
with his parents to Mississippi, in which state he was raised. He is a son of
William Wallace and May Fran (Harrison) Barker. His father was a native of
Alabama. A graduate of West Point, and resigned to join the Southern army. He
was Commissary General of the Confederate Army, Southwest Department, until the
surrender. The mother of our subject was a Virginian, and a niece of the famous
Wm. H. (Tecumseh) Harrison, who was inaugurated President of the United States
in 1841. Mr. P. H. Barker was educated in the University of the South, at
Sewannee, Tennessee, and the University of Virginia. He is a professional
accountant and general office man, and came to this city from Memphis in 1898,
to take charge of the office and books of the large mercantile business of J. W.
Beck & Co., and is now business manager of the Forrest City Ice and Power
Company. On June 24, 1899, Mr. Barker was happily married to Miss Ada McDaniel,
youngest daughter of Capt. W. H. and Mollie (Fondren) McDaniel, and now occupies
the old homestead at the head of North Washington Street. One child, a bouncing
baby boy, has blessed their union, and he will celebrate the first anniversary
of his birth on Christmas Day of the present year. 

-Cupid's Capers-Married at Forrest City, Saturday morning, June 24, 1899 at ten
o'clock, Mr. Percy H. Barker and Miss Serap Ada McDaniel. The bride is the
youngest daughter of Capt. and Mrs. W. H. McDaniel, of this city. The groom was
born in Shreveport, La., and lived at Terry, Hinds Co., Mississippi until he
became of age. He attended the University of Virginia, and now occupies the
position of bookkeeper for J. W. Beck & Co. of this city.


Copyright With Permission: 1905 Art Souvenir-Forrest City Times Newspaper Weston
McCollum Lewey, Publisher-Times Herald Publishing-Forrest City, Arkansas