Barrows

Stanley Barrows
Oakwood Cemetery
(Source:  Photo by Jacqueline Klapproth Nelson.  Copyright October 2011)

About Stanley Barrows family, Jacob J. Barrows, father 

Jacob J. Barrows, successfully engaged in truck farming, is the owner of one hundred acres of good land on Section 15, Somers Township, devoted to the raising of various garden products, although he specializes in the production of cabbage and beets.  He was born in Racine, Wisconsin, March 1, 1869, a son of Charles L. and Rhoda M. (Sammis) Barrows, who were natives of Cattaraugus County, New York.  The former died in 1901, while the latter survived until 1906 and was laid to rest by her husband’s side in Mound Cemetery of Racine.

Spending his youthful days under the parental roof, Jacob J. Barrows attended the public schools of Racine and Kenosha County, pursuing his studies to the age of eighteen years, after which he gave his undivided attention to work upon his father’s farm for three years.  He was ambitious, however, to make his labors more directly benefit himself and at the end of that period rented three hundred and sixty acres of land, which he cultivated for four years, and during that time carefully save his earnings until he had a sufficient sum to enable him to purchased thirteen acres on the County Line Road.

After cultivating that track for five years he sold the property and removed to Racine, where he remained for a year and a half, during which period he was employed by the Racine Carriage Company.

He next removed to the old homestead at Berryville, and remained there for two years, after which he purchased sixty acres of land, upon which he has made improvement.  As the years have passed his labors have wrought a marked change in the appearance of his place, and his success has enabled him to further extend the boundaries of his farm by the purchased of forty acres in 1915, so that he now has altogether one hundred acres.  His place is splendidly cultivated and improved with all the accessories and conveniences of the model farm of the twentieth century.  While he raises some grain he gives his attention largely to the cultivation of garden produce for the city markets and has great fields of cabbage and beets, paying particular attention to those vegetables.

On the 5th of September, 1890, Mr. Barrows was married to Miss Carolina Kohlmann, a daughter of Louis Kohlmann, of Racine.  Mr. and Mrs. Barrows have become the parents of five children:  Edna, who is the wife of H.C. Thompson and has two children; Louis H., who married Laura Foster; and Charles, Stanley R., and La Verne, all at home.

Mr. Barrows holds member with the Royal Arcanum of Racine and the rules which govern his conduct are found in the teachings of the Methodist church, he having membership with the church of that denomination at Somers.  In politics he is a Republican and has served in several local offices, including those of Town Treasurer and Chairman of the Board of Supervisors.  He has also been a member of the School Board and is interested in all of those forces and movements which work for the development and improvement of the district in which he lives.  He early recognized the eternal principle that industry wins, and he has made industry the beacon light of his life.

( Source: The City of Kenosha and Kenosha County Wisconsin: A Record of Settlement by Frank H. Lyman, Volume 2, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago 1916.)

 

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Charles L. Barrows
(Photo Source: Biography: 1892 Biographical Sketches of Racine and Kenosha Counties.)

L. Charles Barrows, grandfather of Stanley Barrows

Charles L. Barrows engages in general farming on Section 6, Somers Township, Kenosha County.  We are pleased to add to the list in this old settlers’ record the name of our subject, who is one of the leading agriculturists and prominent men of the community.  He was born in Chautauqua County, N.Y., August 26, 1835, and is a son of La Prelate Barrows[1].  His father, a native of Massachusetts, was born in 1806, and when four years of age, accompanied the grandfather of our subject, Capt. David Barrows, who son he was, to Cattaraugus County, N.Y., which was then an almost unbroken wilderness.  In the Empire State he was reared to manhood and after attaining his majority wedded Mary Jackson[2], a native of the State, and a daughter of Jacob Jackson, a soldier of the War of 1812.  In an early day Mr. Jackson removed to Wisconsin and his second wife, a widow lady, now eighty-three years of age, resides with our subject.  She receives a pension in recognition of her husband’s services as a soldier in his country’s service.

Mr. and Mrs. Barrows began their domestic life upon a farm in New York, where  they made their home until 1840, when they came to Wisconsin, locating in the town of Mt. Pleasant, Racine County.  The father of our subject then purchased a claim of prairie land and there from developed a farm upon which he reared his family.  There were many privations and hardships to be borne during the first few years, but in course of time their labors met with a reward.  Mr. Barrows helped to subdue the wilderness and to make Racine County what it is to-day.  He resided upon his first farm for about forty years and then removed to what is now the home of our subject, where he lived retired from the active duties and labors of life until called to his final rest, December 29, 1888, at the ripe old age of eighty-two years.  He had lost his first wife soon after locating in Racine County.  His second wife survives him and is living with our subject.  Mr. Barrows was a member of the Free-will Baptist Church and a man whose many excellencies of character won him many friends and secured him their high regard.  His family numbered four sons and three daughters, the eldest of whom, Alvin, is now a farmer of Union Grove, Wisconsin; Lydia became the wife of H.P. Sleeper and died December 13, 1887; Lucretia is the wife of Theodore Hubbard, a resident of Spokane County, Washington; Mary V. is the wife of M. Fuller, of Chautauqua County, N.Y.; Ranselaer[3] resides in Edmunds County, S. Dak; Jacob J.[4], who enlisted in the Company K, Eighth Wisconsin Infantry, in 1861, died in the hospital at Keokuk, Iowa, in 1862.

Charles L. Barrows was a lad of only six years when with his father he came to Wisconsin.  In the usual manner of farmers’ sons he was reared to manhood in the same county and had the advantages of the public schools.  With his father he remained until he had attained his majority and with the duties and labors of farm life became familiar.  On the 22d of April, 1858, in Kenosha County, he was united in marriage with Miss Rhoda Rogers Sammis, who was born in the town of Florence, Onondaga County, N.Y., and is a daughter of Jesse and Marcia (Hollenback) Sammis, both of whom were natives of the Empire State.  Her father died in New York in 1845, after which her mother came to Wisconsin in 1850.  She has been three times married and is now a widow residing in Santa Anna, Orange County, Cal., at the age of eighty-seven years.  Mrs. Barrows was a maiden of only ten summers when she came to Wisconsin and in Racine and Kenosha Counties her entire life has since been passed.

Soon after his marriage, Mr. Barrows bought a part of the old homestead in Mt. Pleasant Township, Racine County, and devoted his energies to farming for a number of years.  When the country was in peril, however, he enlisted[5] in her service on the 15^th of August, 1862, as a member of Company H, Twenty-second Wisconsin Infantry, and wore the blue until the close of the war, in June, 1865.  He was promoted to be Corporal and with his regiment participated in eight important battles.  At Spring Hill he was captured and held in Libby Prison for fifteen days, when he was paroled and returned to Nashville.  He then took part of the Atlanta campaign and participated in the battles of Battle of Resaca  Resaca, Ga.,  New Hope Church Battle, Chattahoochee River and  Battle of Peachtree Creek.  With other troops the Twenty-second Wisconsin captured a rebel gunboat on the Savannah River.  They also took part in the Battle of Averasborough, Bentonville, N.C., and a great many skirmishes.  Mr. Barrows was ever a faithful soldier, who was ever found at his post of duty.  He participated in the Grand Review of the Armies at Washington, and after being mustered out at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, returned to his home and family.

Mr. Barrows continued to engage in agricultural pursuits until October, 1875, when he removed to Santa Anna County Cal., where he made his home for about fourteen months, during which time he engaged in carpentering.  He then returned to Racine County, and in November, 1876, located upon the old farm where his boyhood days had been passed.  Since 1882 he has resided upon the farm, which is yet his home.  It is under a high state of cultivation and well improved, and the neat appearance of the place indicates the thrift and enterprise of the owner.  In politics Mr. Barrows is a Republican, having supported that party since he attained his majority.  Various positions of honor and trust he has filled and the duties of these offices he has ever discharged with promptness and fidelity.  For two years he served Treasurer of Mt. Pleasant Township, was elected and served as Supervisor of Somers Township for five years, being for two years Chairman of the Town Board, and for twenty years has been an efficient member of the School Board.  A warm friend is he to the cause of education and his labors have done much for the advancement of the schools and their best interests.  Both he and his wife are active and faithful members of the Free-will Baptist Church and with Gov. Harvey Post G. A.R., of Racine, he is also connected.

Unto this worthy couple (L. Charles and Rhoda) have been born four children, who are yet living:  Chester J[6]., who is a farmer on the old homestead in Mt. Pleasant Township, is married and has two sons; Jacob J[7]., with his wife, Carline and daughter Edna also resides on his farm in Mt. Pleasant Township; Maria and Hiram are now both attending school.  Mr. and Mrs. Barrows have also lost five children:  James Harland, who died in the spring of 1877, at the age of seventeen years; Clara L., who died January 28, 1886, at the age of twenty-four years; Mary Eliza, who died in California February 9, 1875, at the age of eighteen months; Laura La Prelate, who died in California on the 1^st of August, 1875; and Sarah J., who died September 5, 1876, when six months old.  The Barrows family is well and favorably known throughout Racine and Kenosha Counties.  Our subject is considered as a man of unblemished character and sterling worth and is one of the honored farmers of Kenosha County.  He has helped to make the county what it is today and well deserves mention in this volume.[8]

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[1] Father, La Prelate A. Barrows, born 1803, Died Dec. 29, 1888. (Source: Hutchings Family Tree www.ancestry.com)

[2] Mother, Mary Eliza Jackson, born 1811 New York, Died 1841 Mt. Pleasant, Racine, County, Wis. (Source: Hutchings Family Tree www.ancestry.com)

[3] Wife of Ranselaer, Lucinda Wynn Barrows,  Born 1838 Penn., Died 1919 Iowa.  Ranselaer died Feb. 14, 1912 at Lookout Mtn., Tenn.  Buried National Cemetery, Chattanooga.  3^rd Wisconsin Inf, Company H, 22 Wis. Inf. (Source: Hutchings Family Tree www.ancestry.com)

[4] Jacob J. Barrows died August 1862.  L. Charles and wife Rhoda had children while living in Mt. Pleasant and they also named a son Jacob J. born 1869.  (Source:  US Federal Census) Mention of this fact to avoid confusion because there are two Jacob Barrows.

[5] Refer to Civil War Chapter for further information on war records.

[6] See additional information about Chester Barrows in this “Early Settlers” Chapter.

[7] See additional information about Jacob J. Barrows in this “Early Settlers” Chapter.

[8] Source of Biography: 1892 Biographical Sketches of Racine and Kenosha Counties.


More About the Barrow Family

Louis J. Barrows, son of Jacob J. and Caroline Barrows
Oakwood Cemetery
(Source:  Photo by Jacqueline Klapproth Nelson.  Copyright October 2011)

Laura Barrow, wife of Louis J. Barrows, son of Jacob J. and Caroline Barrows
Oakwood Cemetery
(Source: Photo by Jacqueline Klapproth Nelson. Copyright October 2011)