EARLY DEMOCRATIC PAPERS. profession of law, afterwards studied medicine under Dr. James Agnew, father of the late Hon. Daniel Agnew. After graduating in medicine from the Medical College in Baltimore, Md., he removed to Beaver, Pa., in 1829, entering into partnership there with Dr. Milo Adams and practiced medicine there imtil his last illness, with the exception of a few years during which he devoted his time to editorial work in connection with the "Beaver River Gazette," and the "Western Star," both published at Beaver, Pa. He was a skilful, and one of the leading physicians and surgeons of the county, and his repu- tation as such caused him to be summoned in important cases at a considerable distance. His family and widow in 1862 removed to Pittsburg, Pa., and from thence in 1864 to Philadelphia. His son Jesse J. Barker, now actuary of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, finished his education at Philadelphia, graduating from the Philadelphia High School, then studied law and was admitted to the Philadelphia Bar in 1879, and is a mem- ber of the Actuarial Society of America. Jesse J. Barker has two sons, Ralph Emerson Barker and Pierce Barker. The eldest son Ralph, is an electrical engineer, connected with the General Electric Co. at Ljmn, Mass. ; the younger son Pierce, is attending the course of mining engineering at the Colorado School of Mines at Golden, Colorado, and expects to make that his life work. They are both well educated and able young men.
