Noyes Barber (Biography)

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

NOYES BARBER, Clerk of the District Court, was born in Stark County, Ohio, in 1840, and was raised in Clark County, Ill.  In 1861, he enlisted in Company H, the Twenty-first Illinois Infantry for thirty days; he then enlisted in Thirtieth Illinois, Company F, and served four years more, serving most of the time as Quartermaster Sergeant and Commissary Sergeant.  After coming our of the army he located at Kansas City, and was in the stove and tin trade; came from there to Wyandotte and was employed as a salesman, and afterward engaged in the grocer business, then returned to Kansas City and was in a wholesale dry goods house for three years.  In 1873, he came to Elk Falls, Howard County and engaged in the mercantile business.  In 1880, he sold out and was elected Clerk of the District Court and was re-elected in 1882, being nominated both by the Republicans and Greenbackers and endorsed by the Democrats.  He owns a farm of fifty acres near Elk Falls, and has about sixty head of cattle on the place.  He was married in 1872, at Kansas City, to Miss Sarah N. Adams.  They have four children--Clarine, Edwin, May, and Neva.  He is a member of the Elk Falls Lodge, No. 126, A.F. & A.M.