BIOGRAPHY: Florentine H. BARKER, Cambria County, PA 

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From Wiley, Samuel T., ed. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria 
County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Union Publishing Co., 1896, p. 435-6
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FLORENTINE H. BARKER, County Treasurer of Cambria county, Pennsylvania, is a son 
of Hon. Abraham A. Barker, whose sketch and ancestral record appear above.
     He was born February 8, 1847, in Lovell, Oxford county, Maine. His 
education was obtained in the common schools of New England, came with his 
father and the family to Cambria county in 1855 and has ever since been 
prominently identified with its history. He remained with his father in the 
shook, lumbering and merchandize business until the latter went out of business 
in 1880, when the firm became Barker Bros., with which firm he has been 
identified ever since.
     Believing implicitly in the principles of the Republican party, he has 
always voted with it where there was a party issue at stake. Not only has he 
voted with it, but has exerted his influence in behalf of its success and taken 
a prominent part in its councils and conventions. He has held various local 
offices, among them that of burgess of Ebensburg, and, in 1893, was elected to 
the office of county treasurer of Cambria county, a position which his well-
known business ability rendered him eminently qualified to fill. In addition to 
the above, he was in 1896 made one of the national delegates at large from 
Pennsylvania to the Republican National convention at St. Louis in the memorable 
campaign of McKinley and Hobart.
     In the fraternal world, Mr. Barker stands deservedly high, and is a member 
of a number of prominent societies whose objects are to promote a feeling of 
brotherhood among men. He belongs to Summit Lodge, No. 312, F. and A.M., of 
Ebensburg; Portage Chapter, No. 195, R.A.M., of Johnstown; Kedron Commandery, 
No. 18, I.O.O.F., of Ebensburg, and John M. Jones Post, G.A.R., at Ebensburg.
     He entered the Civil War in 1864, in Company C of the Two Hundred and Ninth 
regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer infantry, as a corporal, and served to the 
close of the war.
     February 8, 1870, he married Maggie A., daughter of George C. K. Zahm, of 
Ebensburg, and to this union has been born one son, Oliver G. A., who graduated 
from Lafayette College, in the class of 1895, and is now a student of medicine 
in the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia.