BARNES, DANIEL, was born Feb., 1807, in Bucks county, Pa. He was married in 1832, in Lancaster county, to Margaret A. Richardson, who was born Jan., 1810, in that county. Mr. Barnes kept a book store and bindery in Harrisburg, and was the State binder for Pennsylvania for five years. They had three children in Harrisburg. Mr. Barnes closed up his engagement as State binder in the spring of 1840, sold out his book store, and came west on horseback, looking for a location. He selected Springfield as his future home, and was soon followed by his family. They had four children in Springfield, two of whom died young. Of the other five children--

ALBERT G., born Sept. 4, 1835, in Harrisburg, Pa., was with his father in Springfield from 1840 to 1855, when he engaged in business in Taylorville. He was married August 27, 1861, near Mechanicsburg, Ill., to Henrietta Branson. They have five living children, BENJ. LINCOLN, ALBERT G., Jun., MARY H., CLARA MARY and HARRY R., and reside in Taylorville, Ill. Mr. Barnes is engaged in the mercantile business and banking.

ALMOND F., born in 1837, in Harrisburg, Pa, raised in Springfield and Taylorville, married in 1863, in Quincy, Ill., to Nellie Harvey. They reside in Quincy.

HARRIET A., born in Harrisburg and died in 1859.

CHARLES E., born Dec. 19, 1842, in Springfield, married in Taylorville, Jan. 25, 1871, to Jeanette Overand, who was born August 24, 1855, in Hartford, Conn. They have one child, RALPH, and reside in Taylorville. Mr. Barnes was in business with his father until the death of the latter, and is now a hardware merchant.

ANNA, born about 1844 or '5, in Springfield, married in St. Louis, Mo., to J. H. Pierson, and resides in Hearne, Robertson county, Texas.

Daniel Barnes sold dry goods in Springfield, from 1842 to 1849. He was in business with his son, Charles E., until Jan. 10, 1868, when he died, in Taylorville. His widow resides there.

Gilbert Barnes, the father of Daniel, was born in 1780, in Bucks county, Pa. He was a soldier from that county in the war of 1812. He married and had seven children in the same county. Gilbert Barnes, and other members of his family, came to Springfield with the family of his son, Daniel, in 1840, but I have not been able to obtain a full history of the family.

BARRETT, DR. R. F., moved from Green county, Ky., to Sangamon county about the time of the "deep snow" of 1830 and '31, and settled on Spring creek, in what is now Island Grove township. He had a son born there, and in 1839 Dr. Barrett accepted the position of Professor of Materia Medica, in the Medical College of Missouri, and moved to St. Louis. His son--

ARTHUR B., born August 22, 1835, on Spring creek, Sangamon county, married in St. Louis to a Miss Sweringen. He was for seven years President of the company managing the St. Louis Fair, and it was largely through his influence that it acquired a reputation unsurpassed by any other institution of the kind in America. He was also President of the Missouri Life Ins. Co. He was elected Mayor of St. Louis, was inuagurated April 13, and died April 24, 1875.