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Author: Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County

DAVID D. BARRETT, a well-known business man of Joliet, was born in Jackson 
Township, this county, September 3, 1854, a son of Lansing and Margaret A. 
(Hampton) Barrett, natives respectively of Ontario, Canada, and the Isle of 
Man. His paternal grandfather about 1840 brought his family from Canada to 
Illinois, settling in Jackson Township, Will County, where he improved a farm 
from the wild prairie. He died in Joliet when almost one hundred years of age. 
The maternal grandfather, John Hampton, who was born on the Isle of Man, April 
1, 1800, grew to manhood and married there. On coming to America he settled in 
Cleveland, Ohio, but after one year, in 1841, he came to Illinois, settling in 
Jackson Township, this county, and improving a farm from a bare, unimproved 
tract of land. He aided in the building of the Chicago & Alton Railroad 
through his township and a station was established on his farm that was called 
Hampton. Prominent in local affairs he wielded an influence for good among his 
fellow-citizens. He died in Joliet in 1884. Reared on a farm, Lansing Barrett 
became a stock-dealer and brought from Canada the first merino sheep 
introduced into this county. During the gold excitement of 1859 he went to 
Pike's Peak, intending to bring back to Illinois a bunch of mountain horses, 
but was taken sick on the way and compelled to return. He died shortly 
afterward, when only twenty-six years of age. His wife is still living and 
makes her home at No. 216 Cassaday avenue, Joliet. Our subject, who was the 
only child born of the marriage, was taken into the home of his mother's 
father, but at the age of seven went to St. Louis to make his home with an 
uncle. He attended the schools of that city until he was fourteen. On his 
return to this county he took charge of his grandfather's farm, but after four 
years he came to Joliet, and for two years attended school. The cooper's trade 
he learned under Joseph Winterbottom, for whom in time he became 
superintendent, remaining with the same employer for fourteen years. June 12, 
1887, Mr. Barrett started in the livery business, buying Mr. Bennett's 
interest in the firm of Cook & Bennett, and continuing with L. M. Cook under 
the title of Cook & Barrett. After eighteen months he sold out and ten days 
later he bought out Merrill & Potter, on the corner of Scott and Van Buren 
streets, where he has since carried on a large business. The building which he 
occupies is 60x160, with an L 60x120, being the largest barn under one roof in 
the city. In the livery, boarding and transfer business he has built up a 
large trade, and he also has horses on sale, owning a number that are 
unusually fine. His "David H." is a three-year old pacer, with a record of 
2:20. He also raised "Minnie B.," that paced one-half mile at 1:09, when two 
years of age, but before the next season was accidentally injured. In national 
politics Mr. Barrett is a Republican. He is connected with the Modern Woodmen 
of America and the Uniform Rank, K. of P. He was united in marriage, in 
Bondfield, Ill., with Isabelle, daughter of John Linebarger, a grain dealer in 
Elwood, this county. They are the parents of three children, Howard, Gladys 
and Mabel.

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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