Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Read, G. D. March 19, 1850 - 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Read, G.D., Russia, was born in Russia, on the old Read Homestead, March 19, 
1850.  He is a son of Erastus and Caroline Read.  He was reared on a farm and 
received a common school education.  December 13, 1887, he married Carrie A. 
Barker, a native of Russia, born in 1865.  Her father, Gorham Barker, was a 
native of Russia, and her grandfather, James Barker, was a native of 
Massachusetts, who came to Russia when a young man.  He married Belinda 
Hubbart by whom he had eleven children.  He died in Russia at the age of 
ninety-two years and his wife died at the age of eighty-six.  Gorham Barker 
was born in 1817.  September 28, 1852, he married Achsah Walker, daughter of 
Ebenezer Walker, of Russia, who was a son of Truman Walker of Massachusetts, 
and one of the early settlers of Russia.  He was in the war of 1812.  Ebenezer 
Walker and wife had five children.  Mr. Walker died aged seventy-six, and his 
wife died in 1836.  Mr. Barker and wife have had two sons and a daughter.  He 
died October 28, 1877, his wife being still living.  Mr. Read owns one of the 
finest farms in Russia, on which he keeps a large dairy.  He is a Republican 
in politics, and a member of Poland Grange, No. 607.  His wife is a member of 
the Baptist church of Russia.

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source:
History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of 
its citizens
edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard
Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893
550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports.

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