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Barker, Reuben H. W

farmer, soldier, state senator, was born Aug. 31, 1846, in Iredell county, N. C. He was educated at Rutherford college; and was for many years engaged in merchandising, but later became a successful farmer and and stockraiser.

He served two years in the confederate army as a member of the twenty-ninth regiment North Carolina troops. He is the son of the Rev. J. N. Barker, who for nearly fifty years was a traveling methodist clergyman. He has taken an active part in public affairs; has been a justice of the peace; and in 1896 was elected a member of the North Carolina state senate.