BIO: BARKER, John H., Pendleton Co., KY ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contributed for use in US GenWeb Archives by the Kentucky Biography Project Date: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 Subject: BIO: BARKER, John H., Pendleton Co., KY ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***************************************************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************************************** Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th ed., Pendleton Co. JOHN H. BARKER, a native of Pendleton County, Ky., was born May 1, 1854, and is a son of Joseph and Sallie (Schoolfield) Barker, natives, respectively, of Pendleton County, Ky., and Bracken County, Ky. The paternal grandfather of our subject, John H. Barker, a native of Virginia, settled in the northern part of Pendleton County when quite a young man; was a member of the Kentucky Legislature, and also for a number of years served his county as sheriff and magistrate; he died in 1854. Joseph Barker now resides in Ohio, at the age of sixty-five years. John H. Barker, subject of this sketch, was reared on the farm, read law under John H. Fryer, and began the practice of that profession at Falmouth, Ky., in 1876; he was thus engaged until August, 1882, when he was elected county judge, and re-elected in 1886. May 13, 1880, he married Miss Ella M. Fee, of Moscow, Ohio, and two children have blessed their union: Lida Louise and Mary Etna. *****************************************************************************