History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties, Missouri  1889, 
published by Goodspeed, page 719, 720

Dr. Alfred Barter, a practicing physician and surgeon, also a successful
fruit-grower of Virgil City, was born in London, Ontario, Canada, in 1854, 
and is the son of J. E. and Sarah (Jones) Barter, natives of England and 
Canada, born in 1818 and 1825, respectively.  When eleven years of age J. 
E. Barter emigrated with his parents to Canada, lived for some in Montreal, 
and then came to London, where he married and resided until 1870.  He 
then moved to Virgil City, Mo., and here Mrs. Barter died in 1872.  A few 
years since Mr. Barter went to Los Angeles, Cal., where his is living at the 
present time.  He is a man of no little intelligence and ability, and has been 
traveling salesman for different wholesale establishments of various kinds 
nearly all his life.   He did military service during the trouble in Canada in 
1837. He has one son and two daughters now living, the Doctor being the 
eldest.  One daughter, Clara, is the wife of Hon. W. B. Lewis, who 
represents Cedar County in the Legislature, and the other daughter, Annie, 
now in Los Angeles, Cal., is a celebrated portrait artist; one of her most 
elaborate woks adorns Buckingham Palace, in England.  The Doctor 
received a good practical education in the common schools of Canada, 
and in 1867 came to North Missouri, where he was engaged in the nursery 
business one year.   He then came to Virgil City, was occupied in the drug 
business for several years, and in 1877 graduated from the St. Louis 
Eclectic Medical Collage.  Since then he has been actively engaged in the 
practice of his profession. For the last ten or twelve years he has been 
successfully and extensively interested in fruit growing, and has one of the 
finest fruit farms in Cedar County.  He has 200 acres in all, fifty acres in 
orchard, peach, and apples.  In 1870 he married Miss Anna Swartz, a 
native of Illinois, and the daughter of Owen and Rebecca Swartz.  Her 
father died in Illinois, but her mother is living, and is a resident of Vernon 
County.  To the Doctor and wife were born six children, three sons and two 
daughters living.  In politics he has been a Democrat until recently, since 
which time he has allied himself earnestly with the Prohibitionists, and is 
an active worker in the cause.  He is a prominent member of the Masonic  
fraternity, and is secretary of Hesperian Lodge No. 286.  He and Mrs. 
Barter are faithful members of the Church of Christ.

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