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THE FOLLOWING IS INFORMATION FROM ALICE STILLMAN BARBER IN 1934{GRANDDAUGHTER} AND ADDENDUM FROM CARL FRANK TODSON IN 1955{GREAT GRANDSON} OF JOHN BARBER.
THE FOLLOWING PAGES WERE NOT PLANNED ORGINALLY,BUT HAVE GROWN SLOWLY AS MATERIAL HAS BEEN COLLECTED, AT FIRST BECAUSE OF MY OWN INTEREST,LATER BECAUSE QUESTIONS CONCERNING OUT BRANCH OF THE FAMILYWERE REFERED TO ME AS THE OLDEST LIVING MEMBER,AND AGAIN BECAUSE A DESIRE WAS EXPRESSED BY SOME TO SEE THE RESULTS OF MY INVESTIGATIONS. LIVING IN THE NEAR EAST, I HAVE HAD NO OPPORTUNITY TO TRACE THE LINKS WHICH CONNECT OUT BRACNCH WITH THE BARBER PROGENITOR WHO REACHED THE SHORES OF NEW ENGLAND 300 YEARS AGO. THE BEST THAT I OFFER IS THE THREE PRINCIPLE DATES IN THE LIVES OF THE DESCENDENTS OF CAPTAIN JOHN BARBER AND HIS WIFE EMMA,FORMERLY OF BENSON,VERMONT, AND LATER OF BARBER'S CORNERS, DUPAGE COUNTY, ILLINOIS, TO WHICH THEY HAVE UNTIL THE PRESENT ATTAINED:VIZ,BIRTH,MARRIAGE AND DEATH. WHEN GRANDFATHER BARBER WITH HIS FAMILY LEFT BENSON
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