Nehemiah Barlow and Orinda Steele Family

Highland Park [Illinois] Press April 04, 1918

FORMER TEACHER DIES IN DELAVAN WISCONSIN TAUGHT HERE FOR 26 YEARS

Miss Cornelia Barlow, Who is Said to Have Taught 900 Highland Parkers to Read, Succumbs

News reached Highland Park this week of the death of Miss Cornelia Barlow at Delevan, Wis. on March 30th. Miss Barlow has been in failing health for several months but the immediate cause of her death was a shock due to a fall which happened on March 13th. She was living with her sister, Miss Harriet Barlow in the old home place at Delevan. The announcement of her death will be recieved with great regret by the older citizens of Highland Park and by hundreds of people who know her as their primary teachers at the Elm Place School.

Miss Barlow came here from Delevan, Wis. in 1885 and made her home with her two aunts, the Missess Helen and Albina LaBar with whom she lived until their death in 1904. She was born at Delevan and had done all her earlier teaching in the schools of that city. In time she came to Chicago to take a kindergarten course and graduated from the Frobel association. Then it was that she came to Highland Park and opened a private kindergarten. This she maintained for a year but in September 1886, upon the resignation of Miss Theresa A. Elliott she was elected to the primary position in the public schools. She retained that position for twenty-six consecutive years, when in June 1912 she retired from active service.

At the time of her retirement Miss Barlow was given a farewell reception at which time Dr. Wolcott, in behalf of the citizens of Highland Park made an address of appreciation of the long and fruitful years of service which Miss Barlow had bestowed upon the community, commenting at that time on Miss Barlow's long tenure of servie and upon the coming and going of different superintendents under whom Miss Barlow had served. Dr. Wolcott said that the school patrons whenever they heard of a change of the principalship had reassured themselves with the thought that things would surely be all right for Miss Barlow would still be here. She had come to represent stability and character and the schools seemed to take on these traits because of her continuous years of service. At the conclusion of the address Miss Barlow was presented with a purse of $150 in gold and with a beautifully engrossed testimonial of appreciation prepared by the board of education.

Miss Barlow was always identified with public movements in Highland Park. Her special interest was with the local chapter of the D.A.R. of which she was a charter member. She represented this chapter in the National Association of D.A.R. chapters at Washington in 1913.

Miss Barlow's first years of service were in a wooden building of three rooms which fronted on Elm Place. The upper grade pupils at that time were acommodated in a larger building of brick which stood nearby but fronted on Sheridan Road.

John T. Ray was principal of the shools then and Miss Barlow associates on the staff of teachers included Miss Bertha Baker, Maude Summons, Eliza Obee, D.L. Smerthwait, and Minnie N. Barrett. Among Miss Barlow's pupils this first year were Aleck Rafferty, Orville St. Peter, Benny Steffen, Florence Evans, Mamie Ralph and Mary Rioux. These girls of 1886 are now known as Mrs. B. G. Stevens, Mrs. Leslie Gowdie, Mrs. John Peterson, Mrs. Wm. Clarke, and Mrs. George Keeler. It was stated at the time of Miss Barlow's retirement that she had taught probably 900 different children of Highland Park to read. Upon them children she exerted a wholesome influence and her long and faithful services in Highland Park will be gratefully remembered by all who knew her.   Original Article  

Dictionary of Wisconsin Biography

August 17, 1818 - October 05, 1900

Lawyer, politician, born Ballson Spa, New York
He moved to Delavan in 1840
Admitted to the bar - 1841

A Whig and later a Republican

Barlow was state assemblyman from Walworth Co - 1852

In 1855 he moved to Delton

State assemblyman from Sauk County - 1867
State Senator 1868 - 1869
Wisconsin attorney general 1870 - 1874
Presidential Elector from Wisconsin at-large 1868

Contributed by Kent Barlow

AT FOUR SCORE AND TWO
Gen. Barlow Passes Over the Dark River

Stephen S. Barlow died at St. Luke's hospital yesterday morning in the eighty-second year of his age. Mr. Barlow was born at Ballston Spa, N.Y., Aug. 1818. He resided many years in Wisconsin. He was a member of both houses of the Wisconsin legislature and was attorney general of that state from 1870-1874.

For the last few years Mr. Barlow has made his home with his son, Henry P. Barlow of Hague avenue, St. Paul. Gen. Barlow's remains will be taken to Baraboo, Wis., and laid beside those of his wife.

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Standing, left to right:  Lt. Edmund Pendleton, PLt. Alex C. M. Pennington, Capt. Henry Benson, Capt, H. M. Gibson,  Lt. James E. Wilson, Capt. John C. Tidball, Lt. William N. Dennison
Seated, left to right: Capt. Horatio Gibson, Lt. Peter C. Hains, Lt. Col. William Hays, Capt. James M. Robertson, Lt. J.W. Barlow
Seated on the ground, left to right: Lt. Robert H. Chapin, Lt. Robert Clarke, A.C. Vincent

76.117

Among the final maps (76 items) issued by the Commission are two bound sets of published maps covering the area between El Paso, TX, and the Pacific Ocean, showing the boundary and boundary monuments. Signatures of the Commissioners and surveyors representing both countries are reproduced, and titles are given in both English and Spanish on each sheet. Each set includes a two-sheet map index, 19 maps (numbered in one set from the east to the west and in the other from the west to the east), and five profiles.

Other records include a bound volume entitled “Special Maps of U.S. Section,” signed on the title page “J.W. Barlow, Col. of Engineers, Engr. in Chief, U.S. Section.”

76.120

The correspondence files of Col. John W. Barlow, the U.S. Commissioner, consist primarily of letters and telegrams sent and received by the Section. Copies of letters sent by the U.S. Commissioner, 1891-96 (7 in.), to the Departments of State and the Treasury, and to engineers, surveyors, astronomers, Mexican officials, and others, concern the boundary survey, the purchase and erection of monuments, the organization of the International Boundary Commission, procurement, accounts, and other matters affecting the progress of the survey and the administration of the U.S. Section.
The letters received by the U.S. Commissioner, 1891-96 (6 in.), which are arranged by name of correspondent, are from surveyors, engineers, astronomers, manufacturing firms, and others, and relate to the work and progress of the boundary survey, procurement, accounts, and other admini- strative matters.

Among these letters are a few sent by Barlow to subordinates, and they are filed under Barlow's name.

U.S. Army Engineers on the U.S. - Mexico border    Photo compliments of John F. Barlow and Images of the American West web site

Barlow Peak (southern Yellowstone near the boundary)
Named in 1895 by the United States Geological Survey. Named for Captain (later Colonel) J. W. Barlow, Corps of Engineers, leader of the military expedition which came through the park simultaneously with Hayden's Expedition in 1871. His name was originally placed to the upper course of the Snake River, but was transferred to this peak.

Gen. John W. Barlow, U.S. A., (retired.) of New London Conn., died on Sunday in Jerusalem. Accompanied by his wife, he was aking a tour of the Holy Land.

Gen. Barlow sailed for Europe Feb. 2. Gen. John Whitney Barlow was born in 1838 at Perry, N.Y., and was graduated in 1861 from West Point. He was appointed a Second Lieutenant of artillery in May, 1861, and later transferred to the topographical engineers. He was made Captain in July, 1863, Major in 1869, Lieutenant Colonel in 1881, Colonel in 1895, and Brigadier General and Chief of Engineers in 1901. He was retired in 1901 at his own request after forty years of service. He took part in manyof the great battles of the war, and was brevetted three times for meritorious services. He was with the Army of the Potomac and with Gen. Sherman on the march to the sea as a builder of roads, bridges, and fortifications.

After the war Gen. Barlow was an engineer in charge of harbor construction on Lake Champlain, and later at Chicago, New London, Conn; Milwaukee, and other cities. He made original explorations of the headwaters of the Yellowstone and Mississippi Rivers.

Gen. Barlow was a member of the Association of Graduates of West Point, of the Military Service Institution of the United States, of the Societies of the Army of the Potomac, of the Cumberland and of the Tennessee, and a companion of the Loyal Legion. In this city he belonged to the New York Athletic Club, the National Arts Club, and the Army and Navy Club.     Original Article

Stephen Barlow, Recent Arrival from Tampico, Takes His Own Life in Hotel Room

Stephen Barlow, age about 42 years, who came to Brownsville about three days ago from Tampico, took his own life here in a room at the Travelers Hotel here Sunday morning about 7:30, by shooting himself through the heart. Barlow left a note stating that he was tired of living, and was taking his own life. His home was in San Diego California, where his only relative, a sister, resides. Despondency over family troubles is the theory advanced by police, for the cause of his suicide. The sister has been notified of his death, and the body is being held here awaiting her instructions.

In addition to the note left by the dead man there were letters addressed to his sister, his former wife at Austin, Texas, and his father-in-law in Laredo.

A porter sleeping in the hall of the hotel heard the shot fired, and notified the manager. The door was found locked, and local police were forced to break in the door.

Barlow, according to the papers found among his possessions, was a member of the American Legion and had served during the World War as a captain in the aviation. He also had a pre-war record as an officer in the army. He had been in Tampico for some time before coming to Brownsville, and was employed there by a mining company.

Barlow was employed in this city several years ago and made many friends. At that time he was separated from his wife, who had their children and was living with her parents at Laredo. He made many friends during his residence in this city, and was generally regarded as a very industrious man. He left Brownsville to accept a position with an oil company at Tampico, remaining in the employ of the company up to a few days before his return to the border.   Original Article