BIO: D. H. BARNETT, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 752 & 755.
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  D. H. BARNETT, general farmer and well known and highly respected citizen of 
Knox township, Clearfield county, Pa., where he owns 125 acres of valuable land, 
is also a survivor of the great Civil war and for five years has served as 
commander of Post No. 179, G. A. R., at Clearfield.  Mr. Barnett was born in 
Jefferson county, Pa., and is a son of Seneca and Hannah (Snyder) Barnett.  They 
were lifelong residents of Jefferson county and the father was accidentally 
killed in a coal bank there.
  D. H. Barnett attended the country schools in his boyhood and remained in 
Jefferson county until 1860, when he came to Clearfield county, but returned to 
Jefferson in the following year and enlisted for service in the Civil war.  He 
became a member of Co. B, 78th Pa. Vol. Inf., and continued in the army for 
thirty-nine months, taking part in many battles and performing his full duty as 
a soldier.  When he was honorably discharged, on the day of the second election 
of President Lincoln, it was with the rank of corporal.  In the fall of 1865 he 
came back to Clearfield county and engaged in lumbering within three miles of 
his present farm, on which he settled after his marriage, in November, 1866.  He 
now owns 125 acres, as stated above, and has 105 acres cleared, having cleared 
eighty-five of them by his own industry.  He carries on general farming and 
raises some excellent stock.  In politics he is a Republican but holds no 
township office.  He has preserved his memories of the Civil war through his 
association with his military comrades, and not only has taken a very active 
part in Grand Army affairs but belongs also to the order of Patriotic Sons of 
America.
  In the fall of 1866, Mr. Barnett was married to Miss Cornelia Chase, a 
daughter of John M. Chase, and the following children were born to them:  
Jennie, who is the wife of Clark Fox, of Knox township; John M., who was 
accidentally killed by a horse, on Lick Run, at the age of twenty-seven years, 
and was survived by a widow, formerly Miss Mary Dunlap; Maggie, who is the wife 
of Grant Haines, of Knox township; William A., who was accidentally killed at 
the Faunce clay mine, July 25, 1901, and was survived by a widow, formerly Miss 
Susie Rowles; Hannah, who is the wife of D. W. Bowman, of Echo, Ore.; Jesse, who 
residing in Knox township, who married Jane, a daughter of Jefferson Baughman, 
of Woodward township; Hattie, who lives at home; Benjamin D., who is a popular 
and successful county school teacher, now engaged at the Boardman school; Clark, 
who gives his father assistance at home; Esther C., who is teaching her second 
term at Stoneville; and Ralph C., who attends school in Knox township.  Mr. 
Barnett has given his children all educational opportunities within his power 
and they have developed into intelligent, well informed and earnest young people 
reflecting credit upon their parents and community.  Mr. Barnett and family are 
members of the Methodist Episcopal church.