History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . mar-ried, and lives in Cuba, N. Y. Jennie and Hally,his other children, are very intelligent, and likely togrow up to be excellent citizens. Mr. Barnes lost the use of one of his legs when hewas but ten years old, and says that his misfortune wasa godsend, as with his vitality and energy andtwo good legs he might have become a brigand!What is worse, he might have, and likely would have,gone into the late war, and would probably have beenkilled on the field. With the aid of his crutc
History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . mar-ried, and lives in Cuba, N. Y. Jennie and Hally,his other children, are very intelligent, and likely togrow up to be excellent citizens. Mr. Barnes lost the use of one of his legs when hewas but ten years old, and says that his misfortune wasa godsend, as with his vitality and energy andtwo good legs he might have become a brigand!What is worse, he might have, and likely would have,gone into the late war, and would probably have beenkilled on the field. With the aid of his crutch hemoves about as lively as most men on two good legs,and at the age of sixty-three is as active as ever, andlooks younger than most men at fifty. His nervewill probably carry him on into extreme old age, andkeep him useful all the while. JOHN D. D. Frisbee, Esq., president of the First Na-tional Bank of Connellsville, and the leading mer-chant of that borough, is of New England stock onhis paternal side; in his maternal line father, Samuel Frisbee, was born in Connecticut, J.
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