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"History of Colorado", edited by Wilbur Fisk Stone, published by The S. J. 
Clarke Publishing Co. (1918)  Vol. II

p. 110-111



ELMER CLARK BARNES.

	Elmer dark Barnes is principal of the Barnes Commercial School. 
In its conduct he has met a need of the business world for thoroughly 
trained people to enter upon important and responsible positions in 
business circles. His course of instruction is most thorough and 
comprehensive and was planned with a view to meeting modern-day needs. 
His efforts have been crowned with a notable measure of success. 
Professor Barnes is a native of Tallmadge, Ohio. His father, Sylvester 
E. Barnes, was also born in the Buckeye state and devoted his life to 
farming. He was a son of Sylvester Barnes a native of Massachusetts. 
During the period of his residence in Ohio Sylvester E. Barnes was 
quite prominent in community affairs, serving as school commissioner 
and taking active part in promoting the moral progress of the community 
through his efforts as Sunday school superintendent. He married 
Rosemond Packard, a native of Hinckley, Ohio, and a representative of 
one of the old New England families. She, too, has passed away. To Mr. 
and Mrs. Sylvester E. Barnes were born eight children, Mary Eunice, 
Ella Rosemond, Emory Burton, Arthur Leroy, Elmer dark, Hubert Treat, 
Harry Eugene and Raymond Packard. The last two are business associates 
of their brother, Elmer Clark.

	Spending his youthful days under the parental roof, Professor 
Barnes of this review began his education in the district schools and 
passed through consecutive grades to his graduation from the high 
school at Tallmadge with the class of 1888. He afterward attended Mount 
Union College, where he won the degree of Bachelor of Commercial 
Science in 1893. He took up the profession of teaching, which he 
followed for four years in the public schools, and afterward became 
connected with the Perkins & Herpel Business College of St. Louis, 
Missouri. Subsequently he spent five years in Hartford, Connecticut, as 
a teacher in the Huntsinger Business College, and in 1904 he came to 
Denver, where he established a school at his present location, and 
something of the marvelous growth of the undertaking is indicated in 
the fact that he opened his school with but four pupils and today there 
is an annual enrollment of fifteen hundred students under the care of 
twenty-four teachers. The business has been organized and incorporated 
under the name of the Barnes Commercial School, of which Professor E. 
C. Barnes is the president, with H. E. Barnes as secretary and R. P. 
Barnes as vice president. The last named is also teacher of 
salesmanship and advertising. The school is splendidly equipped. There 
are eight adding machines and one hundred and sixty typewriters, 
together with every other facility to promote the work of pupils along 
business lines. He has an expert for penmanship engrossing. The work of 
the school has been thoroughly systematized and organized and each 
department turns out efficient pupils, qualified to take up responsible 
positions in the line of work for which they have been trained.

	In 1898 Professor Barnes was united in marriage to Miss Jennie 
Hart, of Brimneld, Ohio, a daughter of M. M. and C. H. Hart. Mr. and 
Mrs. Barnes have one son, Emory Hart, who was born in 1909. Professor 
Barnes is a Mason, belonging to Denver Lodge, No. 5, A. F. & A. M. His 
religious faith is evidenced in his membership in the Plymouth 
Congregational church, in which he is serving as deacon and in which he 
has been Sunday school superintendent. His political support is given 
to the republican party and he keeps well informed on the questions and 
issues of the day but has never sought or desired office. Since 1908 he 
has been a member of the Chamber of Commerce and he is interested in 
all those plans and measures which work for the advancement of the 
community, the extension of its trade relations and the upholding of 
its civic standards. His career has been a notably successful one and 
his school fills a want in the business life of the community, turning 
out most capable people. Professor Barnes is a man of marked force and 
great executive ability, of attractive personality, and actuated at all 
times by Christian principles, his course ever measuring up to the 
highest standards of manhood and of citizenship.