“The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago:  
Western Historical Company.   1879.


M. N. BARBER, M.D.,  born in the town of Mendon, near Rochester, 
N.Y., in March, 1821.  His present wife was Jane L, Hartwell.  They 
were married in La Porte, Ind.  They have two children – Laura and 
Neal.  The Doctor has two children by an earlier marriage – Jane L. 
(now Mrs. J. R. Buchanan, of Trinidad, Colo.) and Frank A. (who is 
associated with his father in the practice of medicine.  Dr. Barber came 
to Wisconsin from La Porte, Ind., in the spring of 1846, and located at 
Racine, where he remained until he came to Watertown, in the spring of 
1848.


Submitted by:  Linda Pingel  (LPingel@worldnet.att.net)