Bio: Barr, Ira C. (History - 1842)
Contact: Janet Schwarze
Surnames: BARR RICHARDSON FUSEE MCNALLY
----Source: Biographical
History of Clark and Jackson Counties, published by The Lewis
Publishing Co., 1891, Pages 191 and 192:
IRA C. BARR, a blacksmith of Longwood, Clark
County, Wisconsin was born in Zorra, Oxford County, Ontario, August
16, 1842, the son of George (deceased) and Martha (Richardson)
Barr, the former a native of New York State, and the latter of
Ontario. The father was a farmer by occupation, and was taken by
his parents to Ontario when two years old. They had nine children,
six of whom survive: Ira, Esther, Annie, Caleb, Abraham and
Ransler.
The subject of this sketch was reared to farm life, and received
his education in the common schools of his native county, where he
also learned his trade when a young man. He removed to Lapeer
County, Michigan, in January, 1865, where, and at other points in
the same State, he lived several years, working in the saw-mills in
the summer, and n the blacksmith ships in winter. He came to
Greenwood, this county, in 1878, and remained until 1886, and that
year removed to Longwood, where he has since followed his trade. He
also owns four and a half acres of land in this place.
Mr. Barr was married November 11, 1870, to Charlotte Fusee, born
August 10, 1848, the daughter of Anthony and Louisa (McNally)
Fusee, the former a native of Paris, France, and the latter of
Lower Canada. They were the parents of thirteen children eleven of
whom still survive, viz.: Sarah, Louis, Charles, Mary, Charlotte,
Adelia, James, Frank, Jane, Jeanette and Emma. The two deceased,
Margaret and Melissa, had married, and left families. The father
left his native country when fourteen years of age and settled in
Lower Canada. He now resides in Fargo, Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Barr
had seven children, four of whom are now living: Anthony, George,
Jessie and Albert. Socially Mr. Barr is a member of the I.O.O.F.
fraternity, and politically a Republican. Both himself and wife are
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
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