Biographical Sketch of Hon. Barney Amick, Wright County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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Hon. Barney Amick, member of the Legislature from Wright County, Mo.,
was born in Randolph County, N. C., in 1836, being the son of Lorenzo
D. and Cynthia (Burrow) Amick, and grandson of Peter Amick, who was a
native of Holland, and immigrated to America, where he died, in Ran-
dolph County, N. C.  The maternal grandfather of our subject, Barney
Burrow, was a native of England; came to America when a young man, and
located in Guilford County, N. C., where he was living at the breaking
out of the Revolution.  He was a farmer, and died at the age of about
fifty-five years.  The Burrows were of the Presbyterian denomination,
and were very tenacious of their religious faith.  Dobson Burrow, a
brother of Barney Burrow, was a Revolutionary soldier, and fought on 
the Colonial side.  Lorenzo D. Amick was also a native of Randolph 
County, N. C., born October 12, 1813, and was by occupation a farmer.
He immigrated to Missouri in 1842, locating in what is now Webster
County, and in 1848 moved to Morgan County, where he remained for ten
years.  He then returned to Webster County, Mo., in 1857, and located
twelve miles west of where his son, Hon. Barney Amick, now resides, 
where he spent his declining years.  He died in 1863.  Mrs. Cynthia
(Burrow) Amick was born in Guilford County, N. C., November 13, 1812, 
and died in 1886.  They were the parents of eight children, of whom
Barney Amick is the eldest, and only six of whom are now living.  He
received such an education as the common day schools of that time
afforded, but by observation and study he has fitted himself for any
position, and is a well informed man on any subject.  At the age of
fourteen he entered mercantile life as a clerk in a store at Versaill-
es, Morgan County, Mo., and remained there for five years.  In 1857 he
went to Webster County, Mo., and at Waldo entered business for himself
by running a general mercantile store for three years.  About this time
the Civil War broke out, and Mr. Amick joined Company L, First Missouri
Cavalry, and served three years.  He was at the battles of Prairie
Grove, Little Rock, and during Banks' expedition up Red River he was
under fire forty days.  Immediately after the war he was elected county
and circuit clerk, and filled the position for eight years.  In 1874 he
was elected circuit clerk, and served four years in that capacity.  He
retired to his farm in 1878, and has since been engaged in agricultural
pursuits.  In 1886 he was elected a member of the Legislature, and is
still the incumbent.  In 1860 Mr. Amick was united in marriage to Miss
Angeline Freeman, who bore him four children: John, Theodosia (deceas-
ed), Cynthia, and Cora, who died at the age of sixteen years.  Mrs.
Amick was born in 1837, and died in March, 1870.  Mr. Amick, for two
years before the war, and before his marriage, traveled as a salesman
for J. C. McCoy, and was over Illinois, Arkansas and Missouri.  He 
chose for his second wife Miss Margaret F. Freeman, and was married to
her in May, 1871.  Five children were born to their union: Charles, who
died at the age of fourteen months; Edgar, Roscoe, Nena, and Samuel, 
who died in infancy.  Both wives were the daughters of L. T. and Sarah
L. Freeman, who were natives of Roane County, Tenn., and pioneers of
Wright County, Mo., where they moved in 1843.  Mr. Amick is a member of
the Masonic fraternity, is a member of the G. A. R., and is a member of
the Baptist Church.

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