The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . one approaches the center. Prior to 1893Mr. Barber, either individually or as president ofthe Barber Asphalt Paving company, had laid up-ward of 6,000,000 square yards of Trinidad
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . one approaches the center. Prior to 1893Mr. Barber, either individually or as president ofthe Barber Asphalt Paving company, had laid up-ward of 6,000,000 square yards of Trinidad asphaltpavement in thirty cities of the United States, aggre-gating over $30,000,000. In 1870 he received thedegree of from Oberlin, and in 1876 theColumbian university conferred upon him the de-gree of He is a trustee of Oberlin college, adirector of the Washington Loan and Trust company,and other corporations. He is a fellow of the Amer-ican society of civil engineers, a member of the Ohiosociety, of the Engineers, Manhattan Athletic, NewYork Yacht, and Corinthian Yacht clubs, and of theNew York geographical society. He owns a hand-some residence in Washington, D. C, and in 1888purchased for a summer home the old homestead onStaten Island that formerly belonged to Sir EdwardCunard. Besides being a successful business man,Mr. Barber has literary tastes, a kindly dispositionand indomitable 184 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA
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