BIO:  Albert F. BARKER, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Hanover Borough and Penn Township, Pg 60

ALBERT F. BARKER, proprietor of the Diller House, Hanover, was born January 20, 
1841, near Littlestown, Penn.  His parents, Joseph and Cassia (Diehl) Barker, 
natives of Chester and York Counties, were married in York County and removed to 
Adams County, where all their children, fourteen in number, were born, of whom 
only six are now living.  Mr. Barker acquired his education in the public 
schools of his native town.  His studies were pursued with a view to the medical 
profession, but he abandoned it at the age of seventeen, at the request of his 
father.  He clerked in mercantile establishments and hotels in Pennsylvania and 
Maryland, and during the last war he volunteered as a nurse to attend the sick 
and wounded at the second battle of Bull Run, had charge of a ward in general 
hospital, but was several times detailed for field hospital duty.  He was in the 
service about four months.  He was married at Uniontown, Md., January 30, 1864, 
to Miss Ellen R. Carlisle, a native of Maryland.  Their only child died in 
infancy.  He embarked in the mercantile business in Littlestown in 1864, and 
followed it fourteen years.  He then retired from the business and for about 
four years traded in cattle, etc.  In March, 1883, he bought out the Diller 
House, which he refitted and refurnished and converted into a first-class hotel.  
His father died in Littlestown, Penn., at the age of sixty-nine years, leaving 
an estate of several thousand dollars, of which he has charge as administrator.  
His mother is still living at the old homestead, aged about seventy-one years.  
Mr. Barker is member of the I. O. O. F. and of the order of Red Men.  He had 
been an active Republican for many years of his life, and was postmaster at 
Littlestown from 1864 to 1878.