Gwinnett-Walton County GaArchives Biographies.....Barber, J. H. November 8 1882 - living in 1911
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Author: J. C. Flanigan
Rev. J. H. Barber.

	Perhaps the best educated young man claiming Gwinnett county as his 
home is the Rev. John H. Barber.

	November 8, 1882 is the date of his birth, which event occurred in 
Walton county. At the age of three, his parents moved to Gwinnett county, 
within half a mile of Dacula. There his boyhood days were spent and the family 
lives there yet.

	He attended the common schools of this neighborhood with the other 
children in the community. In September, 1899, he entered Perry-Rainey 
Institute and remained there two years.

	In September, 1901, he entered Freshman class at Mercer University and 
after a four years' course, graduated in 1905 with the degree of Bachelor of 
Arts. The following fall, he became a student in the Southern Baptist 
Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky., taking the degree of Master of Theology 
in 1908, and the degree of Doctor of Theology in 1909. Since then he has done 
special work in the University of Alabama.

	He joined the Hebron Baptist church September 9, 1898, and was 
baptized by Rev. Frank Jackson two days later.

	At the age of 17, he decided to enter the ministry; and soon after 
making that decision, he began to preach. He was ordained at Hebron in June, 
1908. During the summer of the same year, he was pastor of the church at 
Eatonton, Georgia.

	Leaving the Seminary in the spring of 1909, he went to Tuscaloosa, 
Alabama, as assistant pastor of the First Baptist church. In February last, he 
became pastor of the Monnish Memorial Baptist church, a new church just 
organized in the same city.

	In addition to his work as a minister, he teaches German, English and 
Bible in the Alabama Central Female College situated in Tuscaloosa.

	On June 23, 1909, he was married to Miss Margery Harris Leonard of 
Eatonton, Ga.


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GWINNETT CHURCHES
A COMPLETE HISTORY OF EVERY CHURCH
IN GWINNETT COUNTY, GEORGIA,
WITH SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES OF ITS
MINISTERS
BY
J. C. FLANIGAN
1911

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