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BYRON A. BARLOW, an active and successful lawyer of Jamestown, is a son of Rev. Abner and Polly (Strunk) Barlow, and was born in the town of Ellicott, Chautauqua couuty. New York, August 10, 1835. His grandfather, Daniel Barlow, was a native of New England, and removed to Chautauqua county, New York, in 1821, or ‘22. He served in the army during the War of 1812. He was a farmer. He married Elizabeth French, and had seven children, three sons and four daughters. One of these sons, Rev. Abner Barlow, was born in New Hampshire in 1799, removed to Chautauqua county, New York, and in 1836, removed to Wisconsin, where he died May 8, 1881. He was a Congregational minister, and in politics was, in early manhood, a whig, but after the disruption of that party in 1853, he joined the republicans. He married Polly Strunk, a descendant of one of the pioneer families of Chautauqua county. To their union were born eleven children: La Fayette, a hotel keeper and farmer of Medford, Minnesota, who married Maria Wheeler; Sophia, wife of Edmund Andrus; Elizabeth, wife of Sylvester Giles, who was postmaster in Galveston, Texas, and died there of yellow fever during the late war; Mary, wife of Lance Estes, a stock raiser in California; Margaret, wife of Henry Janes of California; Eunice, wife of David McNeal, a fanner in Wisconsin; Byron A.; Brainard, a hotel keeper in Chicago; Henry, died in Colorado; Sylvester, who enlisted in 1861 in the 29th regiment, Wisconsin Infantry, and served until the spring of 1863. He accompanied the Red River expedition and died from exposure. Byron A. found him sick near Vicksburg, procured his discharge and brought him home, where he died soon after; and Frances, wife of M. P. Strunk, a lawyer of Jamestown, now deceased. Their mother, Polly Strunk Barlow, was a descendant of Henry Strunk, who, with his sister Katherine, emigrated in 1750, from Lippe Detmold, in the north of Germany, to Troy, New York, where they suffered from the ravages of the British soldiers during the Revolutionary war. Henry Strunk died in 1775, and three of his ten children removed to Ellicott in 1809. Jacob Strunk (maternal grandfather) the eldest of these ten children, died in Ellicott in 1836, leaving several children, among whom was Polly Strunk, the wife of Rev. Abner Barlow.

Byron A. Barlow received his education at Albion academy, at Albion, Wisconsin, from which school he was graduated in 1861, and for three years was a teacher in the academy. In the fall of 1863, he went into the oil region of Pennsylvania as a book-keeper for a firm dealing in oil, and afterward became a partner in the firm. He remained there until 1865, when he removed to Jamestown and read law with Cook & Lockwood. He was admitted to the bar in 1867, since which time he has praticed law in Jamestown. He married Roxanna E. Crane, a daughter of Gerard and Sarah E. Crane, of Ft. Atkinson, Wisconsin. Mr. and Mrs. Barlow have three surviving children: Belle F., wife of Henry C. Marvin of Jamestown; Edith M., and Byron A., Jr. In politics, Mr. Barlow is a republican, and has served as the city clerk of Jamestown for four terms. He was also a member of the board of education for three years, and from 1860 to 1863 he was school commissioner for Dane county, Wisconsin.