Tehama-Colusa-Butte County CA Archives Biographies.....Barley, Even S. circa 1820 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

EVEN S. BARLEY, a farmer near Red Bluff, is a prominent and progressive citizen
of Tehama County. Born in Virginia November 1, 1838, he was educated in his
native State and reared to the life of a farmer. His parents, James P. and Mary
Barley, were both natives of that State, and trace their ancestry to the French
and Irish respectively. Even S. is the second of nine children in his father's
family, and comes from a long-lived race. His paternal grandfather lived to the
age of 114 years. Our subject left his home in 1858, traveled in Mississippi.
Tennessee and Georgia, and after a few years of rambling returned to his native
State. In 1861 he enlisted in the Third Regiment of Virginia Cavalry, serving as
a private for a time; later he was promoted to a noncommissioned office, serving
as such until May 5, 1865, when he was discharged at Appomattox. After the close
of the war he again engaged in farming until 1868, when he came via Panama to
California, locating in Colusa County, where he purchased farm land and engaged
in general farming and stock-raising, making a specialty of sheep. In 1871 he
sold out his farm and stock and removed to Tehama County, where he now resides
on his farm of 160 acres, located three and a half miles southwest of Red Bluff.
Thirty-five acres of this is in young orchard and large varieties of deciduous
fruits, and 2,000 almond trees. He owns also other ranch property, which is
rented out; 560 acres in Tehama County, ten miles southwest of Red Bluff, and
280 acres near Chico, Butte County.

  Mr. Barley was united in marriage at Red Bluff, November 7, 1877, with Miss
Lizzie H. Barker, a native of Wisconsin. Her people are from Vermont, and she
traces her ancestry on the paternal side to Scotland, and on the maternal side
to the English. Mr. and Mrs. Barley have four children, viz.: Lena E., Mary A.,
Charles S. and Edward C.

  Mr. Barley is politically a Democrat, and takes an active part in politics.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from

Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.

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