Montgomery County PA Archives Biographies.....Barlow, Harvey November 3, 1857 - 
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Source: Biographical Annals of Montgomery County Pennsylvania, T. S. Benham & Company and the Lewis Publishing Company, 1904
Author: Ellwood Roberts, Editor

  HARVEY BARLOW, wholesale grain dealer of Pottstown, was 
born in Linfield, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, November 
3, 1857. He is the son of Joel and Mary (Christman) Barlow.

  Joel Barlow (father) was also born in Montgomery county, 
Pennsylvania. In early life he was a carpenter but spent his 
later years on his farm, where he died. He married Mary 
Christmas, also a native of Montgomery county, and they had 
one child, Harvey.

  The paternal grandfather of Harvey Barlow was a farmer in 
Limerick township, Montgomery county. He died at a very 
early age. He married Susanna Hollowbush and they had three 
children. After his death, his wife married (second husband) 
David Evans, and they had three children.

  George Christman (maternal grandfather) was born in 
Montgomery county and lived at Limerick Station, where he 
died at the age of eighty years. By his first wife he had 
eight children. He married (second wife) Margaret Hulby. 
They had no children. In addition to farming he also engaged 
in the boating business on the canal.
 
  Harvey Barlow was reared on a farm in Lower Pottsgrove 
township and received his education in the district schools 
and in the seminary at Boyerstown. He lived at home until he 
was twenty-six years of age, learning carpentering and 
mill-wrighting. After leaving home he followed these trades 
for one year and then engaged in the grain, feed and coal 
business at Sanatoga for three years. From 1889 to 1894 he 
was in the grain business at Linfield, being associated with 
Jared Evans. In the latter year the firm removed to 
Pottstown where they still continue the business. They buy 
grain, shipped from the west, while it is on the tracks.

  March 21, 1883, Harvey Barlow married Miss Lizzie A. 
Schaeffer, daughter of Zephaniah Schaeffer, and they have 
one daughter, Evalin. Mr. and Mrs. Barlow are members of the 
Presbyterian church in which he was a trustee for many 
years. They reside at No. 79 North Franklin street, where he 
owns a beautiful home. Politically Mr. Barlow is a Democrat.

  Mr. Zephaniah Schaeffer and wife, parents of Mrs. Barlow 
were both born in Montgomery county, where he was a farmer. 
Mr. Schaeffer resides at the home of Mr. Barlow in 
Pottstown. His wife died about 1878. They had ten children, 
four of whom are now living: Ida; Lizzie A., Mrs. Barlow; 
Ella, wife of Aaron B. Scheffey, of Phoenixville; and 
Martha, wife of J. W. Binder of Pittsburg.

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