BIOS: Henry Franklin BARRON, Somerset Twp., Somerset County, PA File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Candace Roth Copyright 2006. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/somerset/ ________________________________________________ History of Bedford and Somerset Counties, Pennsylvania; Bedford County by E. Howard Blackburn; Somerset County by William H. Welfley; v.3, Pub. The Lewis Publishing Company, New York/Chicago 1906, ppg. 98/9 Henry Franklin BARRON. Henry Franklin Barron, cashier of the Farmers' National Bank of Somerset, descends from German ancestry. George Barron, grandfather of Henry F. Barron, was born in Somerset township, Somerset county, Pennsylvania, in 1784. He married Christena Barclay, who died June 21, 1851. He died January 18, 1852. The children born to them were: George, September 1, 1810; Joseph, March 15, 1812; John C., July 21, 1820, died April 16, 1897; Eliza, January 6, 1825, married Chauncey Marteeny; Polly, who married Frederick Weimer, Sr., of Somerset, Pennsylvania, died in young womanhood. George Barron was a farmer throughout his life. He was a member of the Lutheran church and politically a Democrat. His children are all dead at this writing. John C. Barron, son of George and Christena (Barclay) Barron, was born July 21, 1820. He was a farmer in Somerset township, Somerset county, Pennsylvania, occupying the old Barron homestead. He was of the Lutheran church faith and obtained a common school education. He was twice married; first to Lavinia, daughter of Jacob and Mary (Hay) Young. They resided in Somerset township. The children born to them were: Araminta, February 26, 1849, married a farmer named Amos A. Adams, now a resident of Waterloo, Iowa; Sophia, April 12, 1850, married James Weimer, a blacksmith of Somerset county, Pennsylvania; Missouri, October 11, 1851, married Cyrus Hemminger, a farmer of Somerset township; Louisa, January 21, 1854, married A. F. Kugs, a farmer and stone mason of Somerset township. The mother of these children died February 22, 1857, and Mr. Barron married (second) Catherine, daughter of Frederick and Elizabeth (Queer) Gonder, in 1860, and by this union were born: Henry F., January 11, 1861; Belinda J., May 26, 1863, married Henry Coleman; Annie M., August 31, 1864, married J. A. Berkey, of Somerset, Pennsylvania; Edward C., March 5, 1866, married Carrie M. Berkey; Sadie E., July 18, 1867, married Edward L. Simpson; Lizzie K., March 3, 1869, died January 1, 1881; Nannie K., October 1, 1870, married Wesley Slagle, of Johnstown, Pennsylvania; John O. K., November 24, 1872, died January 20, 1881. Henry F. Barron, son of John C. and Catherine (Gonder) Barron, born January 11, 1861, obtained his education at the common and normal schools of Somerset, his native county. Subsequently he took a thorough course at Duff's Commercial College of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. From 1879 to January 1, 1891, Mr. Barron followed school teaching in the borough of Somerset and adjacent country districts. Politically Mr. Barron has always voted and given his hearty support to the Republican party. Among the places of trust he has held in an official capacity may be named: From 1891 to 1894 he was deputy sheriff under Isaiah Good; from 1897 to 1899, inclusive, he was prothonotary and clerk of the courts of Somerset county; was school director in the borough of Somerset during 1898-99-1900; chairman of the Republican county committee for 1900-01; also twice a delegate to the Pennsylvania State Republican Convention--1899 and 1900. September 4, 1900, when the Farmers' National Bank of Somerset was organized and opened for the transaction of business, he became its cashier, which position he still holds. He is also one of the directors of this bank. He is a member of the Lutheran church and served as Deacon of Trinity Lutheran church of Somerset for ten years in succession, from 1892 to 1902. He holds a membership in the following civic societies: In Masonry, he belongs to Somerset Lodge No. 358; Hebron Chapter, No. 272, of Meyersdale, Pennsylvania; Oriental Commandery, No. 61, of Johnstown, Pennsylvania; Harrisburg Consistory, A.A.S.R., Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Syria Temple, A.A.O.N.M.S., of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. He is also a member of the Odd Fellows Order, Somerset Lodge, No. 438; Knights of Pythias, Lodge No. 471, of Meyersdale, Pennsylvania; Junior Order of United American Mechanics, of Shanksville, Pennsylvania, and Johnstown Lodge, No. 175, of Elks. Mr. Barron was united in marriage at Lavansville, Pennsylvania, by Rev. L. L. Seiber, pastor of the Lutheran church, April 6, 1882, to Mollie J. Berkey, daughter of Chauncey H. and Elizabeth (Adams) Berkey, of Somerset borough (see Berkey family sketch).