Will County IL Archives Biographies.....BARKER, HOWARD 
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Author: GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD

HOWARD S. BARKER, cashier of the Exchange Bank at Frankfort Station, was born 

in Oneida County, N. Y., in 1850, a son of Asahel B. and Elizabeth Barker, the 

latter a native of England.  His paternal grandfather, Miles Barker, was a 

descendant of early settlers of Connecticut.  The father, a native of Oneida 

County, born in 1823, came to Chicago in 1846, working at his trade, but 

returned to New York after two years, and in 1855 came to Frankfort Station, 

where he followed the carpenter's trade for a time.  In 1862 he embarked in 

the lumber business and in the handling of agricultural implements and 

building material.  This he continued until 1897, when he sold out to his son 

Howard and retired from business life.  He and his wife had eight children, of 

whom two sons and a daughter are living.  At the time the family settled at 

Frankfort Station our subject was about five years of age. His education was 

begun in local public schools and continued in Chicago University.  He 

graduated from the Chicago College of Pharmacy, studying for a year under Dr. 

Jameson of Chicago.  On returning to Frankfort he added a stock of drugs to 

his father's store and became a partner in the entire business, father and son 

remaining together until the former's retirement in 1897.  Since then our 

subject has been sole proprietor.  In 1894, with his father, he started the 

Exchange Bank, of which he was cashier from the first.  He now devotes his 

entire attention to the banking business. He is the owner of a farm in 

Frankfort Township, which he rents. In politics he is a Republican, and is now 

township treasurer, also member of the county central committee.  He has been 

a delegate to county and district conventions.  Fraternally he is an official 

member of the Modern Woodmen.  He is a trustee of the Methodist Episcopal 

Church, and for some time has held office as Sunday-school superintendent.  In 

1880 he married Sarah Winne, by whom he has four children, namely: Wilfred W., 

Elizabeth G., Paul F. and Stantial H. 


Additional comments:
Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County Illinois Containing 
Biographies of Well Known Citizens of the Past and Present, Biographical 
Publishing Company, Chicago, 1900



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