Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....BARBER, DR. JOSEPH March 24, 1864 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/wi/wifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Tina Vickery tsvickery@adelphia.net March 11, 2007, 7:01 pm Author: The State Printing Board, Compiled and Published. MEMBERS OF THE SENATE TWENTY-FIFTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT Lincoln and Marathon counties. DR. JOSEPH BARBER (Rep.) was born in the town of Charlestown, Calumet county, Wisconsin, March 24, 1864. Educated in the common and high schools. Finished medical course in 1896 and practiced medicine and surgery since that time in Wisconsin. Member of Marathon County Medical Society and their vice- president 1922. Member of Wisconsin Medical Association and the American Medical Association. Has been president of the Marathon City Telephone Company for five years. One of the organizers of the Merchants and Farmers State Bank and was the first vice-president of same in this city, also a director. He was the organizer of the Hatley State Bank in Marathon County, and has been director and vice-president of the bank since its organization. Was elected by a majority of 7,000 in the Eighth Congressional district as a delegate to the National Republican convention at Chicago in 1920. In the 1922 election he received 11,308 votes to 3,44 8 for Ralph E. Smith (Ind. Rep.), and 2,456 for A. J. Plowman (Ind. Dem.). --- Additional Comments: The Wisconsin Blue Book. The State Printing Board, 1923. 598 - 640. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wi/history/bluebook/1923/bios/barber39nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/wifiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb