Joseph was a veteran of the Civil War and the grandfather of Bob Barker of The Price is Right.
Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War Grave Information: Joseph H. Barker, birth September 10, 1832 in Herkimer Co., New York, death June 22, 1915, age 83, Union, Sergeant, 5th Iowa Cavalry Co. I, enlisted November 23, 1861, discharged March 1, 1866. Note: Transfer to Co. C. Bracketts Indep. Battal. MN CAV., GAR Post 125. Burial: Ponca Valley Cemetery, Verdel, Knox, Nebraska. Private Headstone. Grand Army of the Republic Flag Holder.
JOSEPH H. BARKER. COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY, REMINISCENCE AND BIOGRAPHY. PAGES 412-413. ALDEN PUBLISHING COMPANY. 1912
Few men remain in the west who have seen it in as early a stage of its development, or as many phases of its varied career, as the venerable Joseph H. Barker, and, after the storm and stress of a lifetime on the plains, still retain their faculties as little impaired as he. He has reached nearly four score years, most of his career spent on the frontier, where he has experienced every vicissitude of the pioneer in the west.
Joseph H. Barker was born in Russia, Herkimer county, New York state, on September 10, 1832, and is a son of Oliver and Ruth (Hubbard) Barker, the former killed by lightning when Joseph was but four years of age. Mrs. Barker married again, and in 1844 the family emigrated west, locating in Wisconsin, where they took up their residence in the primeval forest thirty-five miles from Milwaukee, The journey from. the east was made by wagon and was necessarily long and tedious. The family, with the exception of Joseph remained in Wisconsin during the balance of their lives. Our subject lived with his mother until he reached the age of fifteen, then went to Milwaukee to make his own way. He had two dollars and fifty cents in his pockets, given him, by his mother, which was all the money he had in the world, and all that his mother and a stepsister could obtain. On reaching his destination he secured work on a lake vessel plying the great lakes during the summer season, and in the high seas through the winter, remaining at this work for five years.
The year 1853 he spent with his mother in Wisconsin, and the following spring struck out for the west, locating at Mankato, Minnesota, where he clerked in a hotel for a time, afterwards becoming proprietor of a billiard hall, continuing as such until the call to arms in 1861. He enlisted at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, on November 25, of that year, in Company B, Brackett's Minnesota Battalion of Cavalry, which was later consolidated with Company I, Fifth Iowa Cavalry, and they were mustered out in December, 1863, but re-enlisted as veterans at Pulaski Tennessee, on January 1, 1864, serving continuously up to June, 1866. Brackett's Brigade saw the longest term of service of any company sent out of Minnesota, and, so far as is known, longer than any body of troops from any of the states during the war. The regiment was formed of battalions from Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska and Missouri. They proceeded to Benton Barracks at St. Louis, and were soon sent to the front, reaching Fort Henry the day after it was reduced by the gunboats. They participated in the fights around Fort Donaldson, and were in three engagements, followed by the battles of Pittsburg Landing, Siege of Corinth, Lockbridge Mills, and the Tullahoma Campaign, before they were ordered to the northwest to subdue the Indians in 1864. Major Brackett's Battalion was ordered to join General Sully at Sioux City, marching across the country from Fort Snelling to the rendesvous [sic]. From Fort Randall spuads [sic], were detailed to the various settlements for protection against the redskins, and later Mr. Barker was one of the detachment in which were the first white men to cross the Bad Lands to the Yellowstone river. On starting, they were accompanied by thirty friendly Indians as scouts, and were attacked by hostile tribes, who killed a number of their company including the chief scout. After three days of privation, much of the time without water for themselves or their mounts, they came into the valley of the Yellowstone, where they were cheered by the whistle of a steamboat which had been sent from Sioux City up the river to bring them supplies. In 1865 their campaign extended as far west as Devil's Lake, returning to Fort Union, and in the spring of 1866 they marched back to Fort Snelling, receiving honorable discharge from the service on June 1, of that year.
In 1868 Mr. Barker went to Fort Randall and secured a clerkship with the military traders, Hamilton & Thompson, remaining with them until they lost their franchise, when he obtained a similar position with John W. Smith, an Indian trader, and filled it for two and a half years. They did business with the Spotted Tail Sioux, (now known as the Rosebud Indians), at Whetstone. When Mr. Smith also lost his franchise, our subject moved to Springfield, South Dakota, and kept a hotel for about one year, then followed farming for about the same length of time near the town. In 1874 he secured a franchise for trading with the Indians at the Santee Agency, and for eleven years operated the store and postoffice at that point. He had previously taken an allotment of land under the Indian rights through his wife's relationship with the Sioux tribe, and stocked it with horses, cattle and hogs. On this tract he erected a substantial dwelling, costing $1,500, and his family occupied it while he ran the store. On resigning his rights at the Santee Agency he joined them, remaining on the place and accumulating considerable property, up to 1905, at which time he bought a comfortable cottage in Verdel. This he has improved with shrubbery and flowers, having beautiful lawns, etc., and is prepared to enjoy the remaining years of his life in peace and plenty.
Mr. Barker was married at Fort Randall on October 9, 1871, to Miss Fannie Tackett, who was born at Fort Laramie, and is a daughter of George L. Tackett, a native of Kentucky, of French descent, while her mother was of French and Indian blood. Mr. and Mrs. Barker have four living children: William J., engaged in the real estate business at Gregory, South Dakota; Mabel, wife of Charles Black, living in South Dakota also; Maude, wife of E. J. Dunlap; and Byron J., well know dealer in horses residing in Tripp county, South Dakota. He is an expert judge of horses, also a master of them, and secured first prize in a roping contest held in his vicinity in 1910.
Mr. Barker is a democrat, and is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic Post at Niobrara.
Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War Grave Information: Joseph H. Barker, birth September 10, 1832 in Herkimer Co., New York, death June 22, 1915, age 83, Union, Sergeant, 5th Iowa Cavalry Co. I, enlisted November 23, 1861, discharged March 1, 1866. Note: Transfer to Co. C. Bracketts Indep. Battal. MN CAV., GAR Post 125. Burial: Ponca Valley Cemetery, Verdel, Knox, Nebraska. Private Headstone. Grand Army of the Republic Flag Holder.
JOSEPH H. BARKER. COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY, REMINISCENCE AND BIOGRAPHY. PAGES 412-413. ALDEN PUBLISHING COMPANY. 1912
Few men remain in the west who have seen it in as early a stage of its development, or as many phases of its varied career, as the venerable Joseph H. Barker, and, after the storm and stress of a lifetime on the plains, still retain their faculties as little impaired as he. He has reached nearly four score years, most of his career spent on the frontier, where he has experienced every vicissitude of the pioneer in the west.
Joseph H. Barker was born in Russia, Herkimer county, New York state, on September 10, 1832, and is a son of Oliver and Ruth (Hubbard) Barker, the former killed by lightning when Joseph was but four years of age. Mrs. Barker married again, and in 1844 the family emigrated west, locating in Wisconsin, where they took up their residence in the primeval forest thirty-five miles from Milwaukee, The journey from. the east was made by wagon and was necessarily long and tedious. The family, with the exception of Joseph remained in Wisconsin during the balance of their lives. Our subject lived with his mother until he reached the age of fifteen, then went to Milwaukee to make his own way. He had two dollars and fifty cents in his pockets, given him, by his mother, which was all the money he had in the world, and all that his mother and a stepsister could obtain. On reaching his destination he secured work on a lake vessel plying the great lakes during the summer season, and in the high seas through the winter, remaining at this work for five years.
The year 1853 he spent with his mother in Wisconsin, and the following spring struck out for the west, locating at Mankato, Minnesota, where he clerked in a hotel for a time, afterwards becoming proprietor of a billiard hall, continuing as such until the call to arms in 1861. He enlisted at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, on November 25, of that year, in Company B, Brackett's Minnesota Battalion of Cavalry, which was later consolidated with Company I, Fifth Iowa Cavalry, and they were mustered out in December, 1863, but re-enlisted as veterans at Pulaski Tennessee, on January 1, 1864, serving continuously up to June, 1866. Brackett's Brigade saw the longest term of service of any company sent out of Minnesota, and, so far as is known, longer than any body of troops from any of the states during the war. The regiment was formed of battalions from Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska and Missouri. They proceeded to Benton Barracks at St. Louis, and were soon sent to the front, reaching Fort Henry the day after it was reduced by the gunboats. They participated in the fights around Fort Donaldson, and were in three engagements, followed by the battles of Pittsburg Landing, Siege of Corinth, Lockbridge Mills, and the Tullahoma Campaign, before they were ordered to the northwest to subdue the Indians in 1864. Major Brackett's Battalion was ordered to join General Sully at Sioux City, marching across the country from Fort Snelling to the rendesvous [sic]. From Fort Randall spuads [sic], were detailed to the various settlements for protection against the redskins, and later Mr. Barker was one of the detachment in which were the first white men to cross the Bad Lands to the Yellowstone river. On starting, they were accompanied by thirty friendly Indians as scouts, and were attacked by hostile tribes, who killed a number of their company including the chief scout. After three days of privation, much of the time without water for themselves or their mounts, they came into the valley of the Yellowstone, where they were cheered by the whistle of a steamboat which had been sent from Sioux City up the river to bring them supplies. In 1865 their campaign extended as far west as Devil's Lake, returning to Fort Union, and in the spring of 1866 they marched back to Fort Snelling, receiving honorable discharge from the service on June 1, of that year.
In 1868 Mr. Barker went to Fort Randall and secured a clerkship with the military traders, Hamilton & Thompson, remaining with them until they lost their franchise, when he obtained a similar position with John W. Smith, an Indian trader, and filled it for two and a half years. They did business with the Spotted Tail Sioux, (now known as the Rosebud Indians), at Whetstone. When Mr. Smith also lost his franchise, our subject moved to Springfield, South Dakota, and kept a hotel for about one year, then followed farming for about the same length of time near the town. In 1874 he secured a franchise for trading with the Indians at the Santee Agency, and for eleven years operated the store and postoffice at that point. He had previously taken an allotment of land under the Indian rights through his wife's relationship with the Sioux tribe, and stocked it with horses, cattle and hogs. On this tract he erected a substantial dwelling, costing $1,500, and his family occupied it while he ran the store. On resigning his rights at the Santee Agency he joined them, remaining on the place and accumulating considerable property, up to 1905, at which time he bought a comfortable cottage in Verdel. This he has improved with shrubbery and flowers, having beautiful lawns, etc., and is prepared to enjoy the remaining years of his life in peace and plenty.
Mr. Barker was married at Fort Randall on October 9, 1871, to Miss Fannie Tackett, who was born at Fort Laramie, and is a daughter of George L. Tackett, a native of Kentucky, of French descent, while her mother was of French and Indian blood. Mr. and Mrs. Barker have four living children: William J., engaged in the real estate business at Gregory, South Dakota; Mabel, wife of Charles Black, living in South Dakota also; Maude, wife of E. J. Dunlap; and Byron J., well know dealer in horses residing in Tripp county, South Dakota. He is an expert judge of horses, also a master of them, and secured first prize in a roping contest held in his vicinity in 1910.
Mr. Barker is a democrat, and is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic Post at Niobrara.
Joseph was a veteran of the Civil War and the grandfather of Bob Barker of The Price is Right.
Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War Grave Information: Joseph H. Barker, birth September 10, 1832 in Herkimer Co., New York, death June 22, 1915, age 83, Union, Sergeant, 5th Iowa Cavalry Co. I, enlisted November 23, 1861, discharged March 1, 1866. Note: Transfer to Co. C. Bracketts Indep. Battal. MN CAV., GAR Post 125. Burial: Ponca Valley Cemetery, Verdel, Knox, Nebraska. Private Headstone. Grand Army of the Republic Flag Holder.
JOSEPH H. BARKER. COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY, REMINISCENCE AND BIOGRAPHY. PAGES 412-413. ALDEN PUBLISHING COMPANY. 1912
Few men remain in the west who have seen it in as early a stage of its development, or as many phases of its varied career, as the venerable Joseph H. Barker, and, after the storm and stress of a lifetime on the plains, still retain their faculties as little impaired as he. He has reached nearly four score years, most of his career spent on the frontier, where he has experienced every vicissitude of the pioneer in the west.
Joseph H. Barker was born in Russia, Herkimer county, New York state, on September 10, 1832, and is a son of Oliver and Ruth (Hubbard) Barker, the former killed by lightning when Joseph was but four years of age. Mrs. Barker married again, and in 1844 the family emigrated west, locating in Wisconsin, where they took up their residence in the primeval forest thirty-five miles from Milwaukee, The journey from. the east was made by wagon and was necessarily long and tedious. The family, with the exception of Joseph remained in Wisconsin during the balance of their lives. Our subject lived with his mother until he reached the age of fifteen, then went to Milwaukee to make his own way. He had two dollars and fifty cents in his pockets, given him, by his mother, which was all the money he had in the world, and all that his mother and a stepsister could obtain. On reaching his destination he secured work on a lake vessel plying the great lakes during the summer season, and in the high seas through the winter, remaining at this work for five years.
The year 1853 he spent with his mother in Wisconsin, and the following spring struck out for the west, locating at Mankato, Minnesota, where he clerked in a hotel for a time, afterwards becoming proprietor of a billiard hall, continuing as such until the call to arms in 1861. He enlisted at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, on November 25, of that year, in Company B, Brackett's Minnesota Battalion of Cavalry, which was later consolidated with Company I, Fifth Iowa Cavalry, and they were mustered out in December, 1863, but re-enlisted as veterans at Pulaski Tennessee, on January 1, 1864, serving continuously up to June, 1866. Brackett's Brigade saw the longest term of service of any company sent out of Minnesota, and, so far as is known, longer than any body of troops from any of the states during the war. The regiment was formed of battalions from Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska and Missouri. They proceeded to Benton Barracks at St. Louis, and were soon sent to the front, reaching Fort Henry the day after it was reduced by the gunboats. They participated in the fights around Fort Donaldson, and were in three engagements, followed by the battles of Pittsburg Landing, Siege of Corinth, Lockbridge Mills, and the Tullahoma Campaign, before they were ordered to the northwest to subdue the Indians in 1864. Major Brackett's Battalion was ordered to join General Sully at Sioux City, marching across the country from Fort Snelling to the rendesvous [sic]. From Fort Randall spuads [sic], were detailed to the various settlements for protection against the redskins, and later Mr. Barker was one of the detachment in which were the first white men to cross the Bad Lands to the Yellowstone river. On starting, they were accompanied by thirty friendly Indians as scouts, and were attacked by hostile tribes, who killed a number of their company including the chief scout. After three days of privation, much of the time without water for themselves or their mounts, they came into the valley of the Yellowstone, where they were cheered by the whistle of a steamboat which had been sent from Sioux City up the river to bring them supplies. In 1865 their campaign extended as far west as Devil's Lake, returning to Fort Union, and in the spring of 1866 they marched back to Fort Snelling, receiving honorable discharge from the service on June 1, of that year.
In 1868 Mr. Barker went to Fort Randall and secured a clerkship with the military traders, Hamilton & Thompson, remaining with them until they lost their franchise, when he obtained a similar position with John W. Smith, an Indian trader, and filled it for two and a half years. They did business with the Spotted Tail Sioux, (now known as the Rosebud Indians), at Whetstone. When Mr. Smith also lost his franchise, our subject moved to Springfield, South Dakota, and kept a hotel for about one year, then followed farming for about the same length of time near the town. In 1874 he secured a franchise for trading with the Indians at the Santee Agency, and for eleven years operated the store and postoffice at that point. He had previously taken an allotment of land under the Indian rights through his wife's relationship with the Sioux tribe, and stocked it with horses, cattle and hogs. On this tract he erected a substantial dwelling, costing $1,500, and his family occupied it while he ran the store. On resigning his rights at the Santee Agency he joined them, remaining on the place and accumulating considerable property, up to 1905, at which time he bought a comfortable cottage in Verdel. This he has improved with shrubbery and flowers, having beautiful lawns, etc., and is prepared to enjoy the remaining years of his life in peace and plenty.
Mr. Barker was married at Fort Randall on October 9, 1871, to Miss Fannie Tackett, who was born at Fort Laramie, and is a daughter of George L. Tackett, a native of Kentucky, of French descent, while her mother was of French and Indian blood. Mr. and Mrs. Barker have four living children: William J., engaged in the real estate business at Gregory, South Dakota; Mabel, wife of Charles Black, living in South Dakota also; Maude, wife of E. J. Dunlap; and Byron J., well know dealer in horses residing in Tripp county, South Dakota. He is an expert judge of horses, also a master of them, and secured first prize in a roping contest held in his vicinity in 1910.
Mr. Barker is a democrat, and is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic Post at Niobrara.
Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War Grave Information: Joseph H. Barker, birth September 10, 1832 in Herkimer Co., New York, death June 22, 1915, age 83, Union, Sergeant, 5th Iowa Cavalry Co. I, enlisted November 23, 1861, discharged March 1, 1866. Note: Transfer to Co. C. Bracketts Indep. Battal. MN CAV., GAR Post 125. Burial: Ponca Valley Cemetery, Verdel, Knox, Nebraska. Private Headstone. Grand Army of the Republic Flag Holder.
JOSEPH H. BARKER. COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY, REMINISCENCE AND BIOGRAPHY. PAGES 412-413. ALDEN PUBLISHING COMPANY. 1912
Few men remain in the west who have seen it in as early a stage of its development, or as many phases of its varied career, as the venerable Joseph H. Barker, and, after the storm and stress of a lifetime on the plains, still retain their faculties as little impaired as he. He has reached nearly four score years, most of his career spent on the frontier, where he has experienced every vicissitude of the pioneer in the west.
Joseph H. Barker was born in Russia, Herkimer county, New York state, on September 10, 1832, and is a son of Oliver and Ruth (Hubbard) Barker, the former killed by lightning when Joseph was but four years of age. Mrs. Barker married again, and in 1844 the family emigrated west, locating in Wisconsin, where they took up their residence in the primeval forest thirty-five miles from Milwaukee, The journey from. the east was made by wagon and was necessarily long and tedious. The family, with the exception of Joseph remained in Wisconsin during the balance of their lives. Our subject lived with his mother until he reached the age of fifteen, then went to Milwaukee to make his own way. He had two dollars and fifty cents in his pockets, given him, by his mother, which was all the money he had in the world, and all that his mother and a stepsister could obtain. On reaching his destination he secured work on a lake vessel plying the great lakes during the summer season, and in the high seas through the winter, remaining at this work for five years.
The year 1853 he spent with his mother in Wisconsin, and the following spring struck out for the west, locating at Mankato, Minnesota, where he clerked in a hotel for a time, afterwards becoming proprietor of a billiard hall, continuing as such until the call to arms in 1861. He enlisted at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, on November 25, of that year, in Company B, Brackett's Minnesota Battalion of Cavalry, which was later consolidated with Company I, Fifth Iowa Cavalry, and they were mustered out in December, 1863, but re-enlisted as veterans at Pulaski Tennessee, on January 1, 1864, serving continuously up to June, 1866. Brackett's Brigade saw the longest term of service of any company sent out of Minnesota, and, so far as is known, longer than any body of troops from any of the states during the war. The regiment was formed of battalions from Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska and Missouri. They proceeded to Benton Barracks at St. Louis, and were soon sent to the front, reaching Fort Henry the day after it was reduced by the gunboats. They participated in the fights around Fort Donaldson, and were in three engagements, followed by the battles of Pittsburg Landing, Siege of Corinth, Lockbridge Mills, and the Tullahoma Campaign, before they were ordered to the northwest to subdue the Indians in 1864. Major Brackett's Battalion was ordered to join General Sully at Sioux City, marching across the country from Fort Snelling to the rendesvous [sic]. From Fort Randall spuads [sic], were detailed to the various settlements for protection against the redskins, and later Mr. Barker was one of the detachment in which were the first white men to cross the Bad Lands to the Yellowstone river. On starting, they were accompanied by thirty friendly Indians as scouts, and were attacked by hostile tribes, who killed a number of their company including the chief scout. After three days of privation, much of the time without water for themselves or their mounts, they came into the valley of the Yellowstone, where they were cheered by the whistle of a steamboat which had been sent from Sioux City up the river to bring them supplies. In 1865 their campaign extended as far west as Devil's Lake, returning to Fort Union, and in the spring of 1866 they marched back to Fort Snelling, receiving honorable discharge from the service on June 1, of that year.
In 1868 Mr. Barker went to Fort Randall and secured a clerkship with the military traders, Hamilton & Thompson, remaining with them until they lost their franchise, when he obtained a similar position with John W. Smith, an Indian trader, and filled it for two and a half years. They did business with the Spotted Tail Sioux, (now known as the Rosebud Indians), at Whetstone. When Mr. Smith also lost his franchise, our subject moved to Springfield, South Dakota, and kept a hotel for about one year, then followed farming for about the same length of time near the town. In 1874 he secured a franchise for trading with the Indians at the Santee Agency, and for eleven years operated the store and postoffice at that point. He had previously taken an allotment of land under the Indian rights through his wife's relationship with the Sioux tribe, and stocked it with horses, cattle and hogs. On this tract he erected a substantial dwelling, costing $1,500, and his family occupied it while he ran the store. On resigning his rights at the Santee Agency he joined them, remaining on the place and accumulating considerable property, up to 1905, at which time he bought a comfortable cottage in Verdel. This he has improved with shrubbery and flowers, having beautiful lawns, etc., and is prepared to enjoy the remaining years of his life in peace and plenty.
Mr. Barker was married at Fort Randall on October 9, 1871, to Miss Fannie Tackett, who was born at Fort Laramie, and is a daughter of George L. Tackett, a native of Kentucky, of French descent, while her mother was of French and Indian blood. Mr. and Mrs. Barker have four living children: William J., engaged in the real estate business at Gregory, South Dakota; Mabel, wife of Charles Black, living in South Dakota also; Maude, wife of E. J. Dunlap; and Byron J., well know dealer in horses residing in Tripp county, South Dakota. He is an expert judge of horses, also a master of them, and secured first prize in a roping contest held in his vicinity in 1910.
Mr. Barker is a democrat, and is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic Post at Niobrara.
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