Blair-Mifflin-Huntingdon County PA Archives Biographies.....Barr, Thomas Lorenzo April 4, 1827 - June 13, 1894
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Source: History of Cass county, Indiana - 1886
Author: Thomas B. Helm

"THOMAS L. BARR, one of the substantial and influential citizens of Clay 
Township, was born in Huntingdon County, Penn., April 4, 1827.  His father, 
Samuel Barr, was a native of Lancaster county, Penn., born, of Dutch and 
Scotch-Irish descent, August 1, 1795; moved to Huntingdon County, Penn. when a 
young man and later to Mifflin County, same State, where his death occurred 
September 8, 1862.  He had become a school-teacher at the age of fifteen, and 
kept it up steadily until fifty-five years of age.  He was twice elected to 
the office of recorder of Mifflin County, and held that postition at the time 
of his death.  His mother's maiden name was Bell.  She was born December 12, 
1797.  Her marriage to Samuel Barr occurred in Mifflin County, Penn., December 
28, 1820, and she died in her native county, within two miles of her 
birthplace, December 19, 1845.  When his parents moved to Mifflin County our 
subject was only a boy of perhaps eight years.  At the age of twenty-four he 
immigrated to Auglaize County, Ohio.  Some months later he removed to 
Montgomery County, Ohio, where he became a farm-hand.  In December, 1852, he 
came to this county, and worked on a farm, chiefly in Adams Township, until 
the following August.  On the 18th of this month he was married to Rebecca K. 
Krider, a native of Montgomery County, Ohio, born, of English and German 
descent, August 17, 1834.  She was the third daughter born to Henry and Susan 
(Custer) Krider, the former a native of Lancaster County and the latter of 
Washington County, Penn.  On the 28th of the month in which he was married he 
took his wife and started back to Mifflin County, Penn.  Here he was employed 
in a merchant's mill for about two years.  In September, 1855, he returned to 
this county, and has ever since followed farming in Bethlehem. Adams and Clay 
Townships.  Mr. and Mrs. Barr have had eleven children, only four of whom are 
living.  Their names are Susanna S., born May 18 1854, died July 4, 1854; Mary 
J., born August 9 1855; Sarah M., born February 10 1858; Dulcena M., born July 
11 1860, died December 5 1860; Zeruah H., born October 22 1861, died March 3 
1881; George W., born May 7 1864, died August 29 1865; Isaiah E., born July 24 
1865, died August 17 1865; Binnie B., born January 21 1867, died August 30 
1868; Tamar V., born November 11 1870; Ada H.R., born May 26 1875, and Thomas 
C., born April 20 1879, died August 15 1879.  In politics Mr. Barr is a 
staunch Democrat.  While a resident of Adams Township he held the office of 
township trustee one term and the office of assessor one term.  The date of 
his election to the former was the spring of 1872, and his election to the 
latter office occurred in the spring of 1875.  Mr. Barr, his wife and three 
children belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church.  He owns 195 acres of land, 
about 115 acres of which is under cultivation."

Additional Comments:
NOTE: This is the ONLY biography found of one of Samuel and Sibella's children 
that was written when the subject was still alive and was presumably the 
source for the information.  Thomas would have been about 58 years old when he 
gave the information for his biography.  It is from pages 685 & 686 of "The 
History of Cass County, Indiana" published in 1886 by Brant & Fuller and 
compiled/written by Thomas B. Helm.

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