Meeker County MN Archives Biographies.....Barrick, Nimrod 1851 - 
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/mn/mnfiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 December 22, 2019, 11:07 am

Source: Alden, Ogle & Co.
Author: See Below

    NIMROD BARRICK, a farmer of Ellsworth township, lives on section 33, where he
carries on agricultural pursuits, and confines his operations to grain and cattle
raising.

   Mr. Barrick was born in Cedar county, Iowa, September 20, 1851, and is the son of
Alpheus and Minerva (Porter) Barrick, natives of Virginia and Indiana respectively,
who came to Meeker county in the spring of 1864, and settled in the town of Cedar
Mills, where they still live. Mr. and Mrs. Alpheus Barrick were the parents of eight
children— Isaac, Amos, Sarah, Scott, Nimrod, Nellie, James and Ethan. Isaac, one of
those “whose faith and truth on war’s red touchstone rang true metal,” enlisted in
Company H, Third Minnesota Infantry, and after nearly three years’ service, died
from exposure. Ethan died at the age of two years.

   The subject of our sketch spent a portion of his early life in Rice county,
Minn., where his father followed his trade, blacksmithing, until war times, then
enlisted in Company A, Seventh Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, serving one year.
During this time our subject attended district school, and in the fall of 1864 he,
with the rest of his people, removed to Meeker county, Minn., and settled in Cedar
Mills township, where he remained at home, assisting in the work and improving the
place, until the fall of 1873, when he commenced life for himself and removed to the
town of Ellsworth.

   October 9, 1873, Mr. Barrick and Miss Julia Kennedy pledged their mutual vows at
the marriage altar. The bride was a daughter of Dr. V. P., and Julia Ann (Rudisill)
Kennedy, natives of Pennsylvania and Indiana respectively, and was herself born in
Clay county, Ind. A history of her parents is given elsewhere in the pages of this
Album, to which the reader is referred. By this union Mr. and Mrs. Barrick have
become the parents of three children, Roscoe, YVncent and Baby, and their home is
lightened by the merry sound of childhood’s laugh and song.

   In the spring of 1885, Mr. and Mrs. Barrick moved to Brown county, D. T., but
becoming dissatisfied there, returned to Meeker county in the fall of the same
year.

   Our subject is republican in his principles, and affiliates with that
organization. In local politics he takes considerable interest although, in no way a
professional politician or an office seeker. In 1882 he was honored by the citizens
of Ellsworth township, by having had bestowed upon him the office of town
supervisor, and for four years filled that position. Several minor offices have,
also, in him found a worthy and trusty administrator and he merits and receives the
respect and esteem of the whole community.


Additional Comments:
Illustrated Album of Biography
Meeker and McLeod Counties, Minnesota
1888


File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mn/meeker/bios/barrick569gbs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mnfiles/

File size: 3.3 Kb