BIO:  BARROWS, John E., s/o Heman B. & Eliza C. (Hunter) Barrows

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

BARROWS   HUNTER   GAMMON   MINICH  

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

Knox County, Vigo Twp., page 472

JOHN E. BARROWS is a son of Heman B. and Eliza C. (Hunter) Barrows, who were
born in Illinois and Kentucky in 1823 and 1826 respectively.  The father
was a farmer, and at the time of his marriage lived in Vincennes, Ind.,
where he followed tailoring about four years, and then moved to Edwardsport,
where he purchased 40 acres of land, but soon sold out and bought 115 acres 
in Washington Township, where he has since lived.  He owned about 450 acres
of good land, but has given all but 245 acres to his children.  John E. was
born in Knox County October 28, 1852.  He attended the district schools,
and the graded schools of Bruceville one year.  When twenty years of age he
began doing for himself, but made his home with his parents until twenty-
seven years of age.  April 27, 1879, he married Helen E. Gammon, daughter
of Lewis and Mary (Minich) Gammon.  She was born March 17, 1858, in Knox
County, Ind.  They have one child, Omar P.  In 1881 Mr. Barrows purchased
fifty acres of land and his father gave him fifty acres more, and upon this
farm he lived until 1882, when he bought twenty acres in the suburbs of
Bicknell, and now lives there.  He is a young man of good habits and bids
fair to become a wealthy and prominent citizen.  He is a Democrat, and cast
his first vote for S.J. Tilden.  He and wife are members of the Christian
Church.
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