Biographical Sketch of Richard Barly, Lafayette County, Missouri

>From "History of Lafayette County, Mo., carefully written and compiled
from the most authentic official and private sources" St. Louis, Mo.
Historical Company, 1881.
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Richard Barly, P. O. Corder, Mo.  Was born in Frederick county, Virginia,
in November, 1822, where he was raised and educated.  He followed farming
until 1849, when he went to California, going over the plains, from St.
Joe, with a company of eighty men.  He remained in California for five
years, and while there was engaged as supervisor of a canal.  In 1854 he
returned to Virginia via. the Isthmus, and was twenty-one days from San
Francisco to New York.  In Virginia he engaged in farming again, until 
1860, when he came to this county, settled where he now resides and is
engaged in farming and stock raising.  For the last fourteen years he has
served as justice of the peace for Dover township.  He was first married
in 1857 to Miss Annie E. Nelson, of Frederick county, Virginia, by whom
he had two children: Lewis and Hunter.  In the fall of 1860, his wife 
died, and in 1863 he married Miss Mary B. Cooper.  He is a worthy member
of the A. F. & A. M., Dover Lodge, having joined in Virginia.  He is also
a member of Grange, No. 305, a charter member.

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