BIO: John BARRICK, Huntingdon County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: 
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, 
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. 
Runk & Co., 1897, pages 65-66.
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  JOHN BARRICK, brick manufacturer, Huntingdon, Pa., was born in Walker 
township, Huntingdon county, August 25, 1834, and is a son of John and Jane 
(Kylor) Barrick.  Mr. and Mrs. John Barrick had eight children, of whom one 
died in infancy, and three, James, Jacob and William, after coming to mature 
years.  The four surviving are:  Rebecca, wife of Henry Decker; John; 
Martha, wife of Thomas White; and Ellen, wife of James Hicks.  The father, 
John Barrick, Sr., is deceased; his wife, aged eighty-five, died in 
Huntingdon, July 3, 1896.
  John Barrick, Jr., has been all his life a resident of Huntingdon county, 
and of the borough for fifty years.  His school days were ended by the time 
he attained his thirteenth year; and from the age of twelve to the present 
he has been engaged in the manufacture of bricks.  For forty years of that 
time, Mr. Barrick has conducted the business on his own account.  Though not 
uninterested in public affairs, his political views are liberal.
  John Barrick, Jr., was married in Huntingdon, June 3, 1860, to Sarah J., 
daughter of Adam and Catherine Hoffman, residents of Smithfield, Huntingdon 
county.  Two of their children, George and Annie, died after reaching adult 
age.  The living children are:  Mary (Mrs. Frank Montgomery); Esther (Mrs. 
Henry Rhoades); Cecilia (Mrs. Henry Jacobs); Bessie; and Mordecai M.  The 
family attends the Methodist Episcopal church.