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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
HISTORY
of
GALLATIN, SALINE, HAMILTON, FRANKLIN & WILLIAMSON
COUNTIES, ILLINOIS
From the Earliest Time to the Present; Together with Sundry and
Interesting Biographical Sketches, Notes, Reminiscences, Etc., Etc.
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GEORGE D. BARGER, a pioneer and
farmer, was born in Shawneetown in 1832. He is the
youngest of seven children of Jacob and Elizabeth (Seaton)
Barger. The father, of German origin and born in
Pennsylvania, was the son of Geo. Barger, Sr. He
went to Breckenridge County when a young man, and learned the
carpenter's trade. He married in 1809. And after
1815 he was a farmer and carpenter of Shawneetown, and died in
1847. The mother was born in Kentucky in 1787, and died in
1860. She was a member of the Regular Baptist Church.
Educated at Shawneetown, our subject, in 1854, was married to
Lucy E., daughter of Henry C. and Ann Floyd of
Union County, Ky., where she was born in 1830. Four of
their seven children are living: Jos. T., Lucy G., Maud E.
and Nathaniel B. After 1865 he moved from near
Shawneetown to his present fine farm of eighty acres in Section
22, four and one-half miles from that city. Always a
Democrat, he first voted for Buchanan. He and his wife are
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
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J. B.
BARGER, farmer, was born in Breckenridge
County, Ky., Feb. 2, 1814, one of seven children - two living -
of Jacob and Elizabeth (Seaton) Barger. The father,
born in Pennsylvania in 1784, was the son of Geo. Barger,
of Germany, who, on account of religious persecution, became a
pioneer of Breckenridge County, Ky. the father was poorly
educated, and married in1809, and in 1815 came to Shawneetown,
when, after several years as carpenter, he spent the remainder
of his life as a farmer. He was a trustee of Shawneetown
for some time, and died in 1847. The mother, a native of
Kentucky, was born in 1787 and died in 1860, a member of the
Baptist Church. She was a half sister of Gen.
McClermand, and her mother was an early pioneer of Gallatin
County. Our subject was educated at Shawneetown, and
engaged as clerk adn in flat-boating. In March, 1834, he
married Louisa M., a daughter of John Carter, who
was born in Kentucky about 1814. She died in 1861, a
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Two of their
seven children are living; George and Jacob. In
1847 President Polk commissioned him as postmaster at
Shawneetown, and in 1850 he was elected sheriff, serving two
years, and also some time as deputy. From 1854 to 1856 he
was bookkeeper of the State Bank of Illinois. In 1856 he
was elected county clerk, which position he held for twenty-six
years, at the end of which time the citizens presented him, as a
recognition of his faithfulness, a gold headed cane. Since
his official life close he has lived in retirement. He has
always been a Democrat, and is a Mason and a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. Besides town real estate, he
owns the old homestead of 258 acres.
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JOSEPH BARNETT
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JAMES M. BISHOP,
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W. J. BOYD
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JOHN R. BOYD
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T. W. M. BURROUGHS
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