George L. Barker of Stratham, NH Biography from A History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire (1915)

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Source: A History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
         by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill, 1915

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   GEORGE L. BARKER, a highly successful agriculturist and a repre-
sentative citizen of Rockingham County, N. H., resides upon his farm of 190
acres in the town of Stratham.  He was born in that town, May 3, 1864, and
is a son of Levi and Hannah (Jewell) Barker, and a grandson of George
and Mary C. (Piper) Barker.
   Levi Barker, father of the subject of this sketch, was a native of Stratham
where his entire active career was spent in farming.  He became a man
of affluence and his death which occurred about 1897 deprived the community
of one of its most useful citizens.  He was united in marriage with Hannah
Jewell, who also was born in the town of Stratham and is a daughter of
David and Rachel (Leavitt) Jewell.  The following are the issue of this
union: George L., with whom his mother lives on the home place; Willard:
Mary, wife of Ellis G. Walden; Frank H.; Ralph; and Edith.
   After completing the prescribed course in the public schools, George L.
Barker attended Wesleyan Academy two terms.  He then returned home
and continued farming with his father until 1888.  In that year he went to
Exeter and learned the trade of a machinist, which he followed for five
years.  With the exception of that period his entire life thus far has been
as a farmer and as a resident of Stratham.  He is a man of progressive ideas
and is deeply interested in the affairs of his home community.  He is an
independent republican in politics, and is serving his third year as treasurer
of Stratham.  He formerly served as selectman and auditor, and is now one
of the library trustees.  Fraternally, he is a member of the Junior Order

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United American Mechanics, and of the Patrons of Husbandry.  He has
been a consistent worker in the Baptist church, of which his mother also
is a faithful member, and he served the church organization as clerk, treasurer
and collector.