Hon. K. H. Barackman (Biography)

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Taken from History of the State of Kansas, by William G. Cutler

HON. K. H. BARACKMAN, farmer, P.O. Union Center, was born in Crawford County, Penn., in 1833, but was raised in Ohio, in Monroe and Washington Counties, in 1861 he enlisted in the first call for three years' men in the Seventh West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, serving three years, was sergeant in Company D. In 1865 migrated to Illinois and remained there two years, in 1867 located in Jasper County, Mo., where he engaged in blacksmithing.  In 1874 he migrated to Kansas, locating in Howard County, and bought a farm on Section 6, Township 30, Range 10, and has 420 acres on the Elk River, has the place all fenced, and 120 acres in cultivation, about ten acres of orchard, and has put up a good frame house, a good frame barn, has twenty-five acres of timber, making the best stock farm in this part of the county.  Mr. B. is extensively engaged in raising stock, handles from fifty to one hundred head of cattle, besides horses and hogs, of which he is noted for raising among the best in the country.  In 1874 and 1875, served as Representative in the State Legislature.  Was married in 1856, in Monroe County, Ohio to Miss Mary Battim; they have six children -- John P., J. B., Thomas A., James A., W. S., and Fred C. Is a member of E. M. Stanton Post No. 23, G.A. R., of Howard Lodge, No. 34, I. O. O.F. Mr. Barackman is a warm friend of the temperance cause, and has devoted a good deal of time and money during the past twenty years to the cause.