Noah G. Barnum's Obiturary, Carlotn Township, Barry County, Michigan

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NOAH G. BARNUM
[Related to the Barnums of Carlton & Woodland Twp., Barry Co., MI].
After his death, his widow moved to Carlton, Barry Co., MI]
"History of Orleans County, New York," Town of Yates, pg 317-318--Noah
G. Barnum is a farmer and mechanic.  He was born in Carlton, New York
August 25, 1825 and married March 28, 1849 to Maria Annette Gaskill in
Victor, New York.  They have had children as follows--Ella B. Tyler born
Jan. 7, 1851, died March 1, 1857; Eugene, born March 9, 1854, and
Willard W., born November 18, 1857.  A school in Carlton is named in
honor of Mr. Barnum

"Landmarks of Orleans Co., NY," pg 19--Barnum, Noah G., was born August
25, 1825, in Yates, and received his education from the Yates common
school, and spent his boyhood days on the farm.  He afterward improved
on his limited education by extensive reading and taught school three
winters.  He gave up teaching about 1860, and later in life worked at
the carpenter's trade for several years and then bought out Richmond
Hurd and carried on the wagon business in Yates, manufacturing
principally lumber and democrat wagons.  This business he followed for
twelve years, and then traded his property in Yates for a farm in Murray
where he remained two years.  He next traded the farm for a store, house
and lot in Waterport and moved there March 7, 1881, where he has since
resided...

The children of Noah G. and Marie Antoinette Barnum were:  Ella, born
January 7, 1851, and married John J. Tyler, and they had one child, John
B., born May 17, 1874, who died March 20, 1879, and Mrs. Ella Tyler,
March 1, 1877; Eugene E., the second child of Mr. and Mrs. Barnum, was
born March 9, 1854, and is a physician.  He received his early education
in the Yates Academy, and subsequently graduated at Williams college,
Massachusetts, in 1878.   He then studied medicine with Dr. Garlock of
the town of Yates, then attended lectures in the University of
Pennsylvania and in the University of Buffalo, and was in the Rochester
City Hospital fourteen months.  In 1881 he located at Waterport and
practiced his profession eight years, when his health failed and he
moved to Lancaster Court House, Va., where he regained his health and is
widely known as a physician.  He holds the degrees A.B., A.M. and M.D. 
He married Effie G. Hutchinson of Gaines, born May 15, 1860, and they
have had three children:  Eugene E., born April 24, 1885; Dora E., born
June 29, 1887, died May 19, 1890; Mildred E., born December 13, 1891. 
The third child of Mr. and Mrs. Barnum, Willard W., born November 18,
1857, died September 24, 1882.  He married Addie E. Johnson, born
December 9, 1856, and had two children, Willis Eugene and Willard Ward. 
Willard Ward died June 4, 1882.

According to an undated Yates directory, Noah G. Barnum of Yates was a
wagon maker and patentee of Barnum's patent saw filer.






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