BIO:  BARBER, Nelson, s/o Adin & Aliza (Houts) Barber

Submitted by:  phill@redrock.net   (Phyllis Hill)

BARBER   HOUTS   BACHELOR   THOMAS   

History of Knox and Daviess Counties, Indiana
Chicago:  The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1886

Daviess County, Veal Twp., page 895

NELSON BARBER, farmer and stock raiser, was born in Daviess County, Ind.,
June 12, 1833, son of Adin and Aliza (Houts) Barber, and is of English
lineage.  His parents were natives of New York and Kentucky, respectively.
The Barber family came to Indiana in 1819, and located in Daviess County,
where the father died in 1844.  Nelson Barber, our subject, was reared on
the farm where he now resides.  His father died when he was eleven years of
age, and he remained with his mother and began working for himself after
attaining his majority.  During the winter of 1854-55 and the summer of 1856
he taught school in Franklin County, Ill., and the winter of 1857-58 he
continued that occupation in his native county.  He has since given his
attention to farming, and now owns 220 acres of land, besides the old
homestead.  In the month of May, 1857, he was married to Mary Bachelor, born
in 1838, daughter of George and Mary (Thomas) Bachelor, who were early
settlers of the county.  To Mr. and Mrs. Barber these children were born: 
Aden C., Frank, Ellis, Lewis, Edgar, George L., John N., Stanton, Cora B.,
Bertha, Otis and Jennie.  In politics Mr. Barber is a Republican, and was
elected justice of the peace in 1857, and served four years.  In 1863 he
was elected township trustee, and was re-elected in 1864.  He and wife are
members of the Methodist Church, and he is one of the most spirited citizens
of the county, and a man of true merit.
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