John E. Gable's History of Cambria County, V.II, p.975

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HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY 975

the name of A. A. Barker & Son the business was enlarged and continued until 1879, when Mr. Barker retired and until his death in 1898 he passed his time in travel and temperance work.
    To Mr. and Mrs. Abraham A. Barker four sons were born: Valentine S., Florentine H., Augustine V., and Constantine H.
    Augustine V. Barker served during the Civil war as a private in Company E, Fourth Pennsylvania (Emergency) Regiment, in the campaign of 1862. He attended the district schools and afterward prepared for college at North Bridgton and Norway Academy, Main, and entered Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1868. He graduated in 1872 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts and received from the same institution the honorary degree of Master of Arts in 1875. After his graduation he read law with Hon. E. W. Evans in Chicago for a year and finished his studies in the office of Shoemaker & Sechler, at Ebensburg, being admitted to practice in August, 1875. He has had a large and lucrative practice in the courts of Cambria County, the Supreme Court of the state, and in the United States District Court until 1890, when the death of Hon. R. L. Johnston, president judge of the Forty-seventh Judicial District, consisting of Cambria County, he was appointed by Governor Beaver his successor. In November 1901, he was elected as a Republican for the full term of ten years by a majority of 967 votes, his opponent being Hon. John P. Linton, of Johnstown. Prior to his election to the bench, Judge Barker had become interested in coal lands west of Ebensburg, along Blacklick Creek, and was mainly instrumental in having the Ebensburg Railroad extended through this section. He interested Eastern capitalists and with them organized the Blacklick Land and Improvement Company, the Vinton Colliery Company, and the Vinton Water Company at Vintondale, which is the name for the Lackawanna Steel Company in this region. He secured for it a large body of land in Indiana County, west of Vintondale, on which is now located the mines of the company and the town of Wehrum. After retiring from the bench in 1902, Judge Barker resumed the practice of law with his son, Fred D. Barker, as a partner, be he devoted most of his time to the development of coal and timber lands. In 1909 he retired and removed to Florida, where he has since resided.
    On June 1, 1875, Mr. Barker was united in marriage with Miss Kate F. Zahm, the daughter of George C. and Kate Zahm. They have three children as follows: Fred D., born May 8, 1876; Lovell Maine, born Dec 12, 1884; Helen Alice, born Aug. 18, 1890.

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	HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY	975
the name of A. A. Barker & Son the business was enlarged and continued until 1879, when Mr. Barker retired and until his death in 1898 he passed his time in travel and temperance work. To Mr. and Mrs. Abraham A. Barker four sons were born: Valentine S., Florentine H., Augustine V., and Constantine H. Augustine V. Barker served during the Civil war as a private in Company E, Fourth Pennsylvania (Emergency) Regiment, in the campaign of 1862. He attended the district schools and afterward prepared for college at North Bridgton and Norway Academy, Main, and entered Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1868. He graduated in 1872 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts and received from the same institution the honorary degree of Master of Arts in 1875. After his graduation he read law with Hon. E. W. Evans in Chicago for a year and finished his studies in the office of Shoemaker & Sechler, at Ebensburg, being admitted to practice in August, 1875. He has had a large and lucrative practice in the courts of Cambria County, the Supreme Court of the state, and in the United States District Court until 1890, when the death of Hon. R. L. Johnston, president judge of the Forty-seventh Judicial District, consisting of Cambria County, he was appointed by Governor Beaver his successor. In November 1901, he was elected as a Republican for the full term of ten years by a majority of 967 votes, his opponent being Hon. John P. Linton, of Johnstown. Prior to his election to the bench, Judge Barker had become interested in coal lands west of Ebensburg, along Blacklick Creek, and was mainly instrumental in having the Ebensburg Railroad extended through this section. He interested Eastern capitalists and with them organized the Blacklick Land and Improvement Company, the Vinton Colliery Company, and the Vinton Water Company at Vintondale, which is the name for the Lackawanna Steel Company in this region. He secured for it a large body of land in Indiana County, west of Vintondale, on which is now located the mines of the company and the town of Wehrum. After retiring from the bench in 1902, Judge Barker resumed the practice of law with his son, Fred D. Barker, as a partner, be he devoted most of his time to the development of coal and timber lands. In 1909 he retired and removed to Florida, where he has since resided. On June 1, 1875, Mr. Barker was united in marriage with Miss Kate F. Zahm, the daughter of George C. and Kate Zahm. They have three children as follows: Fred D., born May 8, 1876; Lovell Maine, born Dec 12, 1884; Helen Alice, born Aug. 18, 1890.