BIOGRAPHY: Valentine S. 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
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VALENTINE S. BARKER, son of Hon. A. A. Barker, whose sketch appears above, was 
born August 15, 1843, in Lovell, Maine. His education was obtained in the common 
schools of this county and his native State. In 1862, when the crisis of Civil 
War was upon us, he enlisted in the Union cause in company F of the One Hundred 
and Thirty-Third regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer infantry for nine months. After 
serving the full term of enlistment he returned to Ebensburg, and took up 
mercantile pursuits, and has followed them, in connection with his father and 
brother, to the present time. Politically he is a prohibitionist in principle, 
but formerly affiliated with the party of Lincoln and Grant, whilst in his 
fraternal relations he has been identified with Summit Lodge, No. 312, F. and A. 
M.; Portage Chapter, R.A.M.; Kedron Commandery, No. 32, at Greensburg; Highland 
Lodge, No. 428, I.O.O.F., and Captain John M. Jones Post, No. 556, Grand Army of 
the Republic at Ebensburg.
     Religiously Mr. Barker is a firm believer in the tenets and doctrines of 
the Presbyterian church, in which organization, at Ebensburg, he is an elder.
     Valentine S. Barker has been twice married. His first union was with Jennie 
L. Evans, and resulted in the birth of two children: Myrtle and Mabel, both of 
whom are deceased. As his second wife he married Cassie Williams, and their 
marriage has resulted in the birth of five children: Altha, deceased; Edith, 
Aretas, deceased; Edna and Austin.