Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Barker, Abbott 1823 - 
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Author: History of Grundy Co IL 1882

Abbott Barker, farmer, P. O. Mazon, is a native of Washington County, N. Y., 
born January 12, 1823, son of Leonard and Hannah Barker, of New Hampshire. He 
was raised and educated in the common schools of his native State, then came 
to Illinois and settled in Putnam County, about 1857. Here he lived until 
1861, when he moved to his present residence in Mazon Township, Grundy Co. He 
took the trade of carpenter and joiner after coming to Illinois. He was 
married on March 5, 1856, to Miss Malinda Hopkins, of Putnam County, Ill. She 
was born May 1, 1830, and died in Mazon Township May 22, 1865. They had two 
children - Joel H., born January 31, 1860, and H. J., born January 16, 1857, 
and married, December 28, 1876, to Rev. A. D. Beckhart. April 17, 1866, Mr. 
Barker married the second time. They own a farm of 235 acres of improved land 
in Sections 5 and 8, of Mazon Township, land worth $50 per acre. Mr. and Mrs. 
Barker are members of Wauponsee Grove Congregational Church.

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Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois. (1882) Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co. 
Historical Publishers, p62

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