Harry T. Barker    

HARRY T. BARKER, civil engineer, Beaver Falls, was born in New Brighton, Aug. 28, 1849, and is a son of Thomas A. and Eliza (Oakley) Barker. His paternal grandfather was Abner Barker, of England, a pioneer of Pittsburgh. His maternal grandfather was Milton Oakley, a large ship owner of Baltimore, and a pioneer of Butler county. His wife was a daughter of Isaac Wilson, a pioneer of Harmony, Butler county, and later of New Brighton. He was one of the original projectors of the iron industry of Beaver county, and his furnaces were located on the ground now occupied by the cutlery works in Beaver Falls. Thomas A. Barker was a native of Pittsburgh, but resided in New Brighton many years, where he was engaged in mercantile pursuits, and died in 1859. He had three children: Frank A. (deceased), Harry T. and Nellie (Mrs. Harry Brown), of Pittsburgh. Harry T. was educated in the public schools, and at Myers Academy, Westchester, Pa., and at the Cooper Institute, N.Y., where he was graduated in his profession in 1879. Since then he has been located in Beaver Falls. In 1873 he married Anna, daughter of Capt. George C. and Sarah (Thompson) McLean, of Philadelphia.

History of Beaver County, including its early settlement; its erection into a separate county; its subsequent growth and development; sketches of its boroughs, villages and townships; portraits of some of its prominent men; biographies of many of its representative citizens; statistics, etc. by J. F. Richard; A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888. More Beaver 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