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Surnames: Barry, Mumford, Price, Reid, Reynolds, Richards, Richardson;
Places: Scioto valley, Ohio; Tippecanoe and Carroll counties, Ind.; Mount
Sterling, Ill.
Biographical Review of Cass, Schuyler and Brown Counties, Illinois, pg. 378
Chicago, Biographical Review Publishing Company, 1892
LEWIS T. BARRY, a prominent and esteemed citizen of Mount Sterling,
Illinois, was born in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, on a farm four miles
northeast of LaFayette, September 29, 1827.
His parents were JOHN and PRISCILLA (RICHARDS) BARRY, the former a native of
Pennsylvania. His father removed to Ohio in an early day, where he married
his first wife, and continued to reside in Scioto valley, that State, until
her death. He then removed to Kentucky, where he was again married, his
second wife being the widow of MR. REYNOLDS and became the mother of the
subject of this sketch. About 1826, he and his wife removed to Indiana, at
that time the frontier of civilization. They were pioneers of Tippecanoe
county, that State, where the Indians were then more numerous than the
whites. The father here secured a large tract of Government land and built a
log house, in the construction of which no sawed lumber was used. The floor
was of puncheon and the roof was covered with rived boards, held in place by
weight poles, while the chimney was made of earth and sticks, call in those
days a "cat-and-stick chimney." Both parents resided here until their death,
the mother expiring in 1830 and his father in 1836. They both enjoyed the
universal esteem of their community and were widely and sincerely lamented.
Thus the subject of this sketch was left an orphan at the tender age of nine
years, and early became self-supporting. He attended a pioneer subscription
school which was taught in a log house, the furniture being of the most
primitive kind. Rough slabs, supported by wooden pins for legs, formed the
seats, which had neither backs nor desks; holes burned in the wall, on which
a plank was laid, served as a desk for larger scholars to write on. The
country was without railroads or canals for many years, and LaFayette was
the nearest market. People used to team wheat to Chicago, a distance of
about 150 miles. He thus continued to live on the home farm and attended
school until he attained the age of eighteen years. He then commenced to
clerk in Carroll county, Indiana, where he remained for about five years.
After this, he engaged in tanning and the manufacture of boots, shoes and
harness, at which business he continued four years. At the end of this time,
he sold out, and for a couple of years served as Deputy County Auditor,
after which he did bookkeeping in Delphi, Carroll county. In 1861 he came to
Mount Sterling, where he engaged in the boot and shoe business, besides
which, for some years, he made harness and saddles. He is still engaged in
the boot and shoe trade, and is the only exclusive dealer in that line in
the city, being one of the few successful merchants of the place.
He was married in Delphi, Indiana, in 1850, to ANN L. RICHARDSON, an
estimable lady, a native of Carroll county, that State, and a daughter of
JOHN RICHARDSON, a highly respected citizen. To this union five children
were born, all living:
A.PRISCILLA, wife of E.W. REID, a prosperous resident of Los Angeles,
California;
ELLEN E., wife of ISAIAH PRICE, living in Springfield;
KATE L., wife of WILLIAM MUMFORD, of Pittsfield, who have one son, named
BARRY;
JOHN H. and BERT.
MR. BARRY is a member of Hardin Lodge, No. 44, A.F. & A.M., and in politics
supports the issues of the Democratic party.
Whatever success MR. BARRY has achieved in life has not been acquired
without effort, as might be inferred. On the contrary, his prosperity and
popularity is directly traceable to his unremitting energy and careful
supervision of all the details of his various occupations, and to his
uniform integrity and courtesy, thus deservedly attaining success and
esteem.