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Below is a family biography included in The History of Sebastian County, Arkansas published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1889.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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C. M. Barnes, general fire and life insurance agent, of Fort Smith, was born in Livingston County, N. Y., August 25, 1845. His father was a son of Henry Hogan, who was paymaster in the United States army, and was lost at sea during the War of 1812, after which he was adopted by Gideon Barnes, and was known as Henry Hogan Barnes. He was married to Samantha Boyd, a native of Massachusetts, where Mr. Barnes’ ancestors had located prior to the Revolution. Mr. Barnes, the father of our subject, as a farmer and merchant by occupation. C. M. Barnes grew to manhood in Calhoun County, Mich., and in 1861 enlisted in Howland’s company of Michigan volunteer engineers, in which he served three months. He afterward served in the telegraph corps of the quartermaster’s department, and in 1864 was stationed at Little Rock. In 1868 he came to Fort Smith, where he remained two years, after which he lived in Little Rock until 1876. He then located permanently in Fort Smith, where he became one of the leading citizens. From 1876 until 1880, and from 1881 until 1885, he was Chief United States Deputy Marshal, of this district, and for four years he has served in the town council. He assisted in the organization of the fire department of Fort Smith, is president of the Empire Lumber Company, of Ashton, Ark., a stockholder of the Barnes Lumber Company, of Little Rock, and is secretary of the Fort Smith (Ark.) Fair Association. He was married, at Little Rock, to Mary E. Bartlett, a native of Massachusetts, and daughter of Judge Liberty Bartlett, who went to Little Rock from Massachusetts, before the war. Mr. and Mrs. Barnes have two sons and one daughter, viz.: Cassius, a student in the Racine College at Racine, Wis.; Henry Cooper and Eliza Louise, both of whom attend high-school. Mrs. Barnes is the treasurer of the Ladies’ Aid Society of St. John’s Episcopal Church, to which she and her husband belong.

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This family biography is one of 217 biographies included in The History of Sebastian County, Arkansas published in 1889.  For the complete description, click here: Sebastian County, Arkansas History, Genealogy, and Maps

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