Biography: Winnebago County, Wisconsin: Arthur J. BARBER

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Transcribed from Lawson, Publius V.  History, Winnebago County, Wisconsin:
its cities, towns, resources people. Chicago: C.F. Cooper and Company,
1908. v.2 p.864-865

Arthur J. Barber was born on January 18, 1853, at Wadsboro, Vt.  He is the
seventh child of a family of eight children, five of whom are now (1908)
living.  His parents were Junia D. and Sarah (Smith) Barber, both native of
New England.  His father was farmer and followed his vocation most of his
life in Vermont, but passed his declining years at Oshkosh, Wis., where he
died in 1894 at the ripe old age of 84 years.

Arthur J. worked on his father's farm in Vermont until he was 15, attending
the district school winters.  In the fall of 1868 his parents moved to
Townshend (village), Vt., where he entered the public schools.  After
finishing them he attended Leland & Gray Seminary there for two years, then
pursuing a classical course at Green Mountain Perkins Academy at Woodstock,
Vt., where he graduated in 1873, taking the honors of his class.  The next
three years he taught school with marked success, spending his vacations
reading law in the office of Judge Abisha Stoddard of Townshend.  Then he
studied two years with the Hon. Ellory Albee, of Winchester, N.H.  In the
spring of 1882 he came west and was admitted to the bar of Iowa.  After
looking over Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin he finally located at
Oshkosh, Wis.  In 1882 he was admitted to both the State and Federal courts
of Wisconsin and opened an office and has carried on the general practice
of law with good success.

In 1880 Mr. Barber married Miss Lelia E., daughter of Henry and Harriet
(Crane) Abbott, native of New Hampshire, where the father had been for
thirty-five years cashier of the Winchester National Bank.  Mr. and Mrs.
Barber have an interesting family of four children, viz.: Kate L., a
teacher in the city schools; Abbott A. and Sarah H., students of the High
School, and J. Dean, a student in the Ward school.