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DANIEL M. BARE, a worthy descendant of an old and honorable family, 
distinguished for integrity and uprightness of life, and a 
public-spirited citizen of Roaring Spring, who has contributed largely 
to the prosperity of his town and the success of its religious and 
educational institutions, is a son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Mathias) 
Bare, and was born in Sinking valley, in what is now Tyrone township, 
Blair (then Huntingdon) county, Pennsylvania, October 24, 1834.  The 
Bare family traces its ancestry back to Germany, and the founder of the 
American branch of the family settled in Lancaster county between one 
and two centuries ago, when the great city of Philadelphia was but a 
mere village and the province of Penn contained only a few thousand 
inhabitants. A lineal descendant in the fourth or fifth generation from 
him who planted the Bare family in the Garden county of the State was 
Daniel Bare, the father of the subject of this sketch.  Daniel Bare was 
born in 1787, in York county, and died at Roaring Spring May 23, 1869, 
when in the eighty-second year of his age.  He was reared on a farm, and 
carefully trained to those habits of industry for which the family was 
noted.  He was energetic, active and honest, and soon became prominent 
and respected in his community, where he owned an extensive farm and 
operated a large flouring mill.  In 1864 he removed to Roaring Spring, 
where he was associated with his son, D.M. Bare, in milling and 
merchandising, until his death, five years later.  He was an old-line 
whig and republican in politics, and an active and influential member of 
the River Brothers church, a branch of the Dunkard church.  The life of 
Daniel Bare was straightforward, unfaltering and unchequered, and well 
worthy of imitation.  His habits were extremely plain, simple, sensible, 
temperate, and industrious, and he was highly esteemed for his many good 
qualities.  He married Elizabeth Mathias, who was a native of York 
county, and died in 1857, aged fifty-nine years.  She was a daughter of 
Jacob Mathias, a respectable and well-to-do farmer of York county, who 
lived to be seventy-five years of age. Daniel M. Bare passed his boyhood 
days on the farm, and received his education in the common schools of 
his neighborhood.  At an early age he left school to assist his father 
on the farm and in the mill during the summer seasons, while the winter 
months he passed in teaching.  In 1860 he quit teaching, and a year 
later assumed charge of a store and a flouring mill at Pattonsville, 
Bedford county, which were the property of himself and his father.  In 
1864 he removed to Roaring Spring, and although several mercantile 
ventures at that place had failed, yet he and his father purchased a 
store and flouring mill, both of which became profitable investments.  
At the end of four years, in 1868, he erected his present fine flouring 
mill, which he leased in 1880.  In 1865 he, with others, formed a 
partnership, under the firm name of Eby, Morrison & Co., and erected the 
present paper mill at Roaring Spring.  They built a second mill in 1880, 
at Tyrone, the firm name having changed to Morrison, Bare & Cass, in 
1876.  Mr. Bare then became resident manager of the Roaring Spring paper 
mill, which he supervised until 1886, when he purchased his partners' 
interests in it, and has operated it successfully ever since.  This mill 
gives employment to about one hundred and thirty persons.  In the same 
year that he purchased the paper mill he organized the Roaring Spring 
Blank-book Company, of which he is the chief stockholder and controlling 
power.  He erected a fine two-story factory for the manufacture of blank 
books, and employs within its walls a force of thirty men and sixty 
girls, while he keeps from three to four men on the road to take orders 
for his paper and blank books, now in demand in hundreds of cities, 
towns, and villages. On January 13, 1857, Mr. Bare married Sarah Eby, 
daughter of George Eby, of Huntingdon county, and whose paternal and 
maternal ancestors, the Ebys and Lutzes, were among the pioneer settlers 
of that county.  To Mr. and Mrs. Bare have been born four children: 
Clara S., wife of Mr. E.G. Bobb, a clerk in the office of D.M. Bare & 
Co.; Ella, who married Dr. A.L. Garver, manager of the blank book 
factory; Ina, who died in 1866; and Anna, who is at home with her 
parents. Daniel M. Bare is an active member and a ruling elder of the 
Church of God, to which he is a liberal contributor.  He is a republican 
from conviction, has served for several years as a member of the town 
council, and is ever alive to any measure calculated to benefit Roaring 
Spring, which owes most of its prosperity to the establishment of his 
paper mill and factory.  He labored hard to bring the Morrison Cove 
railway to Roaring Spring, served for a long time as a director of the 
Newry Railroad Company, and acted continuously as postmaster of his town 
from 1864 to 1884.  In religious and educational matters he always takes 
a deep interest, and is now engaged as a member of the board of 
publication of the Church Advocate, of Harrisburg, and has been a 
trustee for eight years of Findlay college, of Findlay, Ohio.  A 
successful experience of a third of a century has given Mr. Bare a 
thorough knowledge of men and business.  He has secured a comfortable 
competency for himself, but while engaged in that laudable work he has 
never forgotten his church or town and their welfare, to whom no man is 
a more generous and liberal contributor. Transcribed and submitted to 
the Blair County, PA, USGenWeb archives by Judy Banja 
<jbanja@comcast.net>