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Barlow, Charles Averill

merchant, farmer, congressman, was born March 17, 1858, in Cleveland, Ohio. He removed to San Luis Obispo county, Cal., where he acquired land and engaged in wheat farming. He was state lecturer of the Farmers' alliance one term, and was elected to the state assembly from San Luis Obispo county in 1893 on the straight people's party ticket. He introduced a number of important bills in the legislature and conducted them to a successful passage. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress, and took an important part in the deliberations of that body.