Clayton R. Barnes Biography


	This biography appears on pages 837-838 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. V (1915) and was 
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				CLAYTON R. BARNES. 

	Clayton R. Barnes, actively and successfully engaged in general 
farming in Wayne township, Minnehaha county, was born on the 7th of 
January, 1888, in the township where he still resides. He is a son of 
F. W. and Eugenia Barnes, who are natives of Erie county, Pennsylvania. 
The father left the Keystone state in early life and came as a boy to 
South Dakota in 1872, in company with his parents, the grandfather 
homesteading. After reaching sufficient age to assume the 
responsibilities and labors of the farm F. W. Barnes began working the 
place and it is now being further developed and improved by Clayton R. 
Barnes, so that it has been operated by three successive generations of 
the family. The grandfather an/l father are numbered among the pioneer 
settlers and because of their activity in public affairs the name of 
Barnes is indelibly inscribed upon the pages of the history of 
Minnehaha county. The grandfather was sheriff of the county and held 
several offices when the state was still under territorial rule. Both 
Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Barnes are still living, the former being now 
actively engaged in business in Sioux Falls. 

	Their son Clayton R. Barnes was educated in the public schools 
and in a business college at Sioux Falls, where he pursued a commercial 
course. After leaving school he assisted his father on the farm and 
when the latter retired from its active management Clayton R. Barnes 
took up the work, which he has since successfully conducted, 
cultivating not only the original tract which was secured by his 
grandfather as a homestead claim but also two hundred acres more. His 
father now owns three hundred and sixty acres, all of which is being 
cultivated and improved by Clayton R. Barnes, who is regarded as one of 
the energetic, representative and progressive young farmers of this 
part of the state. In addition to tilling the fields in the production 
of wheat and other cereals, he is also engaged extensively and 
successfully in stock-raising, having one hundred and fifty head of 
cattle and one hundred and seventy five hogs upon his place. He has all 
the modern farm implements and machinery and his place is well improved 
in every particular. There are good buildings, providing ample shelter 
for grain and stock, and he is thoroughly a farmer of the modern age, 
using the latest scientific ideas, which he puts to the practical test 
in a manner that produces substantial results. 

	Mr. Barnes is an earnest republican as far as belief in party 
principles is concerned, but at local elections he casts an independent 
ballot. He has served as clerk of his township and has held some school 
offices. He is yet a young man, having only recently passed the twenty-
seventh milestone on life's journey, but the record he has made places 
him among the leading agriculturists of Minnehaha county and has 
established his position as a most capable business man.