BIOGRAPHY: John D. BARR, Mifflin County, PA

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The Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley, Comprising 
the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata, and Perry, Pennsylvania.
Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897, Volume I, page 597.

  JOHN D. BARR, Reedsville, Mifflin county, Pa., was born in Brown township, 
November 6, 1815, son of William and Jane (Davis) Barr.  His grandfather, Robert 
Barr, came to America in the eighteenth century.  He married Miss Reed, and 
settled on a farm in the Kishacoquillas valley.  Their children are:  David, 
married and had a family of sons and daughters;  Robert, married, and had two 
sons;  John, married, and had sons and daughters;  James, went west early in 
life, and has not been heard of since;  William.  Robert Barr died at the age of 
seventy-five years.  William Barr, who was born March 17, 1791, acquired his 
education in the district schools, and remained with his father until he was 
twenty-four years of age.  He then rented a farm in Brown township, and 
cultivated it for two years, after which he bought the old Barr homestead, now 
owned by Miss Rhoda Taylor, and there farmed successfully until he reached his 
sixtieth year.  He was a Whig.  He was a good and esteemed citizen.  William 
Barr was married to Jane, daughter of Samuel Davis.  Their children are:  
Christiana (Mrs. John O. Campbell);  John D.;  Robert, married Miss McKaig;  
Elizabeth (Mrs. Joseph Kyle);  Catherine F., widow of David Cummins, married Mr. 
Morn;  Mary Jane (Mrs. R. M. Milliken), had one son;  Nancy D. (Mrs. Jonathan 
Stewart);  Margaret (Mrs. John Schaeld), had three children;  Martha B. (Mrs. 
Robert Maclay), has two children.  Mr. Barr was an earnest member of the East 
Kishacoquillas Presbyterian church, in which he was an elder for many years.  He 
died in 1868, aged seventy-seven years.  His wife's death occurred at the age of 
fifty-six years and ten months.  She was born December 24, 1794.
  John D. Barr was married February 18, 1841, to Polly Ann, daughter of Ephraim 
and Ann (McNitt) Clark.  They had one son, William Reed, who died in 1847, in 
his sixth year.  Mrs. Barr died in 1874, aged seventy-eight years and ten 
months.  Mr. Barr is an elder of the Reedsville Presbyterian church.