lows; and Captain John M. Jones Post, No. 556, of the Grand Army of the Republic, of Ebensburg. He married (first) Jennie L. Evans and had two children, now deceased. He married (second) Cassie Williams and had children: Althea, Austin and Aretas, deceased; Edith and Edna, who survived him. The firm of Barker Bros., of which V. S. Barker was the senior member, has been one of the leading and most progressive business houses in the north of the county for many years. In addition to the large mercantile business conducted by it the firm has large lumber and coal interests in Cambria and adjoining counties. The Ivory Hill Coal Company at Nant-y-glo is owned and operated by the Barker Bros., and the firm, as contractors for others, and for its own use, has built a large number of houses and other buildings there and elsewhere along the Blacklick railroad. V. S. Barker acted as buyer for the firm, and had the reputation among wholesalers of being one of the best posted men in the state in that line. He was quiet, modest and unobtrusive, and his funeral, which was one of the largest ever held in Ebensburg, attested the high esteem in which he was held in this county. Florentine H. Barker, second son of Abraham A. and Orsina P. (Little) Barker, was born at Center Lovell, Maine, February 8, 1847. His education was received in the common schools, and at the early age of fifteen years he enlisted in Company E, Fourth Regiment, Pennsylvania, Militia. Two years later he enlisted in Company C, Two Hundred and Ninth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and served with the rank of corporal until the close of the war. He was in active service in the Eighteenth Army Corps under General Benjamin F. Butler, in the Army of the James, and in the Ninth Army Corps under General Parke, in the Army of the Potomac. At the close of the war, upon his return home, he became associated with his father in the mercantile and lumber business in Ebensburg, the firm conducting business under the firm name of A. A. Barker & Son. It was dissolved in 1880, and later reorganized under the name of Barker Brothers, under which style it has since that time been known. They conduct the largest mercantile business in the northern part of Cambria county, are extensively engaged in the lumber trade, and are large coal operators. They also own large tracts of coal and lumber land in Westmoreland and Indiana counties, Pennsylvania. Independently of the firm, Florentine H. Barker is connected with the F. H. Barker Lumber Company, in which concern he is the leading spirit. He was one of the charter members and is a director of the Northern Cambria Street Railway Company, and is the president of the F. H. Barker Lumber Company of Barnesboro, above mentioned. He was one of the originators of the First National Bank of Ebensburg and has been one of its directors since its organization. He is a stanch supporter of the Republican party, and for the past thirty-five years has taken a most prominent part in the political affairs of the county. He has several times been chairman of the Republican county committee; has been elected to and filled the office of burgess of Ebensburg at various times; for more than twenty years has been a member of the town council of Ebensburg; was elected county treasurer of Cambria county for a term of three years in 1893; and in 1896 was a delegate at large at the Republican national convention held at St. Louis, Missouri, in the campaign of McKinley and Hobart. He is a member, trustee and elder of the Presbyterian church of Ebensburg. He is also connected with the following fraternal organizations: Summit Lodge, No. 312, Free and Accepted Masons, of Ebensburg; Portage Chapter, No. 195, Royal Arch Masons, of Johnstown; Kedron Commandery, No. 18, of Greensburg; Highland Lodge, No. 428, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Ebensburg; and Captain John M. Jones Post, No. 556, Grand Army of the Republic, of Ebensburg. Mr. Barker married, February 8, 1870, Maggie A. Zahm, daughter of George C. K. and Elizabeth Zahm, of Ebensburg, and they are the parents of one son: Olin G. A., born January 14, 1872. He was graduated from Lafayette College in the class of 1895, and in 1898 received from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He spent two years in Europe, studying the diseases of the eye, and is now an eye specialist in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Augustine Vinton Barker, third son of Abraham A. Barker, was born at Lovell, Maine, June 20, 1849. He was a private in Company E, Fourth Pennsylvania (Emergency) Regiment in the campaign of 1862, and afterward prepared for college at North Bridgton and Norway Academy, Maine, and entered Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) in 1868, graduating in 1872 with the degree of A. B., and received from the same institution the honorary degree of A. M. in 1875. After graduating he read law with Hon. E. W. Evans in Chicago for a year, and finished his studies in the office of Shoemaker & Sechler, at Ebensburg, Pennsylvania, being admitted to practice in August, 1875. He had a large and lucrative practice in the courts of Cambria county, the supreme court of the state and in the United States district court until 1890, when, at the death of Hon. R. L. Johnston, president judge of the forty-seventh judicial district, consisting of Cambria county, he was appointed by Governor Beaver his successor. In November, 1901, he was elected as a Republican for the full term of ten years by a majority of nine hundred and sixty-seven, his opponent being Hon. John P. Linton, of Johnstown. Prior to his elevation to the bench Judge Barker had become interested in coal lands west of Ebensburg, along Blacklick creek, and was mainly instrumental in having the Ebensburg & Cresson branch of the Pennsylvania railroad extended into Maggie & Zahn Parlony, of Ebensburg holy Januar Yes Triloge is the clas the orkest department of wtor of Medi Colony the diseases of nodenstows, Pennsylvania Abraham & Barker. He was a private in genes) Regiment in and pepared for college at Wise and entered Dart 1868, graduating and recoved frost the same Ma 15. After grad Exins in Chicago for a * adfce of Shoomaker & Sech he admisted to practice in Cative practice in the court act of the state and in the way when at the death of of the forty-seventh ju anty, he was appointed Sovember 1901, he was bergs of ten ars by a ms & being Hon 171 yoo Judge |