File:Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania (1905) (14784264513).jpg

Identifier: historichomesins02jord (find matches)
Title: Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Jordan, John W. (John Woolf), 1840-1921. mn Green, Edgar Moore. mn Ettinger, George Taylor, 1860- mn Lewis Publishing co., Chicago
Subjects:
Publisher: New York Chicago : Lewis Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh Library System

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
Barnes, was born in Allen-town, Pennsylvania. He pursued his prelim-inary education in the public schools and supple-mented it by study in a private school in whichhe prepared for college. He then pursued a thor-ough course in Lafayette College, from whichinstitution he was graduated. Being thus wellqualified by broad mental training for a success-ful business career, he entered the service of the-Allentown Rolling Mill Company and learnedthe trade of machinist, which he followed forabout ten years. He then engaged in businessfor himself in the manufacture of wagon plat-forms, and has since continued in this line unc--the name of the Allentown Platform Company.The plant is large and the output extensive, there-fore he realizes a goodly income from the invest-ment. The enterprise and business discernmentof Mr. Barnes have also been essential factorsin the successful control of the Allentown Bob-bin Company and the Penn-Allan Portland Ce-ment Company, of both of which he is president..
Text Appearing After Image:
;^S^=^^--f^^-^ GENEALOGICAL AND PERSONAL MEMOIRS. 30s Mr. lianies married Anna Washburn, adaughter of David and Ehza (Miller) Wash-burn, and they are the parents of two daughters:Letitia, wife of James K. Bowen; and Marion.Mr. Barnes and the members of his family arePresbyterians in religious faith. JACOB BARNES, as secretary and generalmanager of the Allentown Bobbin Works, is con-nected with one of the great productive industrieswhich have contributed to the business develop-ment and prosperity of his native city. He is ason of Dr. James P. and Mary (Shimer) Barnes,a full account of whose history with that of theancestors of the Barnes family is found in thesketch of Avon Barnes, which precedes this inthis work. In the days of his boyhood Jacob Barnes wasa student in the public schools of Allentown, andthe knowledge thus obtained was supplementedby a one years course of study in MuhlenbergCollege, thus preparing him for a commerciallife. He afterward entered the employ of theLehigh

Note About Images