Biography: Winnebago County, Wisconsin: Edwin M. BARNES

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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.871

Edwin M. Barnes, who is the youngest of a family of six children born to
Samuel and Katherine (Hole) Barnes, comes of English ancestry.  His parents
came from England, their native land, in their youth, and for a number of
years lived in New York State, whence, after their marriage in the fifties,
they moved to Kenosha County, Wisconsin, and settled on a farm, where they
made a home and reared their family.

The father was a man of sterling character, influential in his community
and universally esteemed and beloved.  He died at his home about 1887.  Of
their children, Judge V. V. Barnes now (1908) resides at Zion City, Lake
County, Illinois; P.R. Barnes is a lawyer in Chicago, where, also, William
J. Lives, engaged in business as a contractor; John, the fourth child, was
killed when 18 years old, and Carrie, the only daughter, is married to Dr.
Ozanne, of Oshkosh.

Edwin M., who was born on the family homestead April 7, 1861, passed his
boyhood on the farm, having the ordinary experiences of the western farmer
boy.  He received a good education in the public and high schools of
Kenosha, and later attended the American Veterinary College, of New York,
from which he was graduated in 1885.  Dr. Barnes began the practice of his
professions at Marinette, Wis., but in 1888 took up his residence in the
city of Oshkosh, where he has established and carries on a most successful
practice, being widely known as an able veterinary surgeon, thoroughly
skilled in all that relates to his profession.  He was several years
secretary of the State Veterinary Association, and is a man of progressive
ideas, who keeps in touch with the trend of new discoveries in the realm of
medical science pertaining to the line of work in which he is engaged.

In 1882 Dr. Barnes married Miss Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. William
Graham, of Oshkosh, a woman of cultured tastes, who is esteemed for her
womanly grace and domestic virtues.

Dr. and Mrs. Barnes have an interesting family of three children, named,
respectively, William S. and Milton Pl, both in attendance at the Chicago
Veterinary College, and Wallace.