BIO: Charles Barnes, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.

                              CHAPTER LIX.

                         UPPER ALLEN TOWNSHIP.

562  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  CHARLES BARNES, manufacturer, P. O. Mechanicsburg, is the son of 
Philip and Eliza (Thompson) Barnes, of York County, Penn., descendants 
of the first settlers of that

563  UPPER ALLEN TOWNSHIP.

county.  Enoch Thompson, grandfather of our subject, served as a 
soldier in the war of 1812; the company of which he was a member, after 
enlistment, marched from York to Baltimore.  He served during the 
entire war, and was a pensioner in the latter years of his life; his 
wife, Catharine, was the mother of a large family, and died at an 
advanced age.  William Barnes, the paternal grandfather of Charles, was 
married to Mary Whitcome, of York County, and also had a large family, 
of whom Philip, the youngest, by trade a tanner, was the father of our 
subject.  Philip and Eliza Barnes had ten children:  Alexander, 
Catharine, Albert, Elizabeth, William, Amanda, Charles, Jennie, 
Margaret and Frank.  Of these, Alexander was the first man to enlist 
from Warrington Township, served until the war closed; Albert, who also 
enlisted early in the campaign, was killed by guerrillas while 
skirmishing in Virginia; William also served until the war closed.  
Charles Barnes, our subject, was born February 20, 1850, in York 
County, Penn., and was apprenticed to learn the whip trade.  Her served 
his apprenticeship, and continued ten years longer with the firm of A. 
& J. E. Wells.  July 31, 1870, our subject was married to Miss Mary E. 
Burns, daughter of William and Evaline Burns, of Warrington Township, 
York Co., Penn., and to this union were born two children:  Clara M. 
and Harry.  Three years after marriage Mr. Barnes came to Mechanicsburg 
and established a small business, manufacturing whips on a $25 capital.  
He hired one man, and when a small lot of whips was finished, peddled 
them through the country.  During his first year he used only 250 sides 
of leather, now he averages 2,000 per annum.  The goods manufactured 
are solid leather whips, and his is the only industry of the kind in 
the State.  He has been very successful, and now owns an attractive 
residence, besides his manufactory, which is run by steam, and 
furnishes employment for twelve hands.