Charles J. Barrett    

CHARLES J. BARRETT, of the firm of Barrett & Bros., of the Crawford County Iron Works, manufacturers of mill furnishing machinery, steam engines, etc., was born in Minnesota, July 25, 1849, and is a son of Samuel and Jeanet (Osborn) Barrett, natives of England, and who emigrated in 1834, settling in Erie City, Penn., where they now are. His father was a cabinetmaker. There are three brothers engaged in the Crawford County Iron Works (of which they are making a success)—C. J., J. O., and W. N. One brother, George, is a resident of Erie City, and all the brothers are practical mechanics. 

History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania: containing a history of the county, its townships, towns, villages, schools, churches, industries, etc., portraits of early settlers and prominent men, biographies, history of Pennsylvania, statistical and miscellaneous matter, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1885, page 710. View image of this page of the book on line at ancestry.com.  Free access  More Crawford County History Books  Search Hundreds of 1880s-1890s Pennsylvania County History Books for biographies and historical information on your ancestors.  View the book page images on line and print them out for your genealogy file!  Free Access to the old history books - plus birth & death records, census images and ALL other records at ancestry.com

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