Lacrosse County WI Archives Biographies.....Barber, George G. 1826 - 
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GEORGE G. BARBER, farmer, Sec. 22; P. O. Mindoro. Mr. Barber was born in 
Cayuga Co., N. Y., in 1826. He removed with his parents to what is now Erie 
Co., Ohio, when a child. He was married in the spring of 1851, to Francis S. 
Cowels, of Rome, Oneida Co., N. Y. They came to La Crosse County from Erie 
Co., Ohio, in September of that year. He worked for a while at the business of 
carpentry; came to Lewis Valley in the spring of 1853. His wife died July 16, 
1853, on the farm which he now owns. He, with his wife, was boarding at the 
time with Mr. Charles Jackson, owner of the farm at that time. Mr. Jackson 
came to La Crosse County in the spring of 1853. He was born in Delaware Co., 
N. Y.; married to the present Mrs. Barber, whose maiden name was Rachel Ward. 
She was born in Otsego Co., N. Y. Mr. Barber had one child by first wife, Mrs. 
Francis A., wife of Wellington Martin. She died Sept. 15, 1880, and left two 
children - Mary E. and George W. Has three children by present marriage - 
Charles, Willis E. and Mary A. Mrs. Barber had two children by former 
marriage, both deceased. Mr. B. has been Justice of the Peace and Notary 
Public since 1858, except one year.

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From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 850.

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