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Herbert Lee Barber (1865-1937)
Herbert Lee Barber
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Birth:
May 20, 1865 on a farm in Jackson, Ingham County,
Michigan.
Parents:
Levi W Barber and
Martha Lavina Naracon
Marriage #1:
Maude Kathleen
Brown on September 11, 1891
Marriage #2:
Martha Elizabeth
"Mattie" Graham on August 16, 1901
Marriage #3:
Florence Metzger
on October 21, 1923
Death:
January 13, 1937 in Williams, Montana
Funeral services for H.L. Barber were held at the W.H.
George Chapel
in Great Falls with the Rev. Edwin Dover of Choteau
officiating.
Burial:
The body was forwarded to Wheaton, Illinois for burial
at nearby
Oak Woods Cemetery in Chicago, Illinois
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 Oak Woods is the most significant historic cemetery of Chicago's South Side. Buried here are such renowned
figures as Mayors Thompson and Washington crime boss Big Jim Colosimo, Olympian Jesse Owens, civil rights
activist Ida B. Wells, and physicist Enrico Fermi. Six thousand Confederate soldiers, prisoners of war who
died at Camp Douglas, are buried together beneath a towering monument.
Oak Woods is located at 67th and Cottage Grove, not far from the lake. The cemetery was established in
1854, a full five years before Rosehill and Calvary, but no burials took place until 1860. Originally, the
cemetery was beyond the city limits but conveniently close to railroad lines. Chicago annexed the area
containing Oak Woods in 1890. In 1893, the World's Columbian Exposition was held only a few blocks north of
Oak Woods, in what is now known as Jackson Park.
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Herbert
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Barber |
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71 |
| Estimated birth year: |
1866 |
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Male |
| Death Date: |
13 13-1-1937 1937 |
| Index Number: |
GF 6511 |
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Montana Office of Vital Statistics
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At a young age he became a principal and teacher at schools in Michigan and
Indiana, followed by work as a book canvasser (book salesman). Because of his son
Haskell's health problems, Herbert began looking to relocate to Montana. In 1909, He discovered an area of
Montana where a major irrigation project had recently been completed and
recognized the opportunity to turn undeveloped land into rich farm
properties. By 1912, H. L. Barber & Company had built the town-site of
Williams, Montana in Pondera County, which came to be known as “The Gem of
the Project,” and later a second nearby town-site known as Manson.
Both town sites were located next to the East-West railway and were stops
for the famous East-West train called "Oriental
Limited" and later the “The Empire Builder”,
which HL used to commute between Williams and Chicago. The towns
thrived until H. L. died in Williams in 1937, and gradually the towns died
too.
1865 H.L. Barber was born on a farm in Jackson, Ingham County, Michigan.
1880 United States
Federal Census - Onondaga, Ingham, Michigan - age 15
188x - H.L. Barber was a teacher and principle at schools in Michigan and
Indiana
188x - H.L. Barber work as a book canvasser (book salesman)
1891 - H.L. Barber lived in Chicago Illinois and was officer in the Elder
Publishing Company
1891 - The New York
Times - September 5, 1891 : Elder Publishing Company Officers now in jail.
1891 - Oswego Daily Times -
September 9, 1891 : Elder & Barber held in $500 bail each
1892 - H.L. Barber started his own publishing company named The Dominion
Company
1900 United States Federal Census - Herbert L
Barber, Haskel (7) & Mary E (sister)
1900 H.L. Barber published a monthly household periodical Fact and Fiction
magazine from 1900 to 1904
1905 Started the H.L. Barber & Company of Chicago - an
investment banking and securities brokerage business
He began publishing his monthly
magazine Investing for Profit. This
magazine was published into the 1930s.
1910 United States Federal Census
- Chicago, Cook, Illinois - age 44 - Stock Broker
Herbert L Barber, Elizabeth, Haskell (18), Bernice (6) & Elizebeth McNair (niece)
1909 HL Barber discovered an area of Montana where a major irrigation project had recently been completed
and recognized the opportunity to turn undeveloped land into rich farm
properties.
1911 The Book of Chicagoans : residence - 1540 Lunt Ave, Rogers Park, IL
1912 H.L. Barber & Company had built the town-site of Williams, Montana in Pondera County
1912 HL published his book Making Money Make
Money based on his monthly magazine
Investing for Profit
1915 Barber was arrested by Federal
authorities charged with having used the mails to defraud investors.
1917 HL published Investing for Profit,
sequel to Making Money Make Money, The Munson Press Company
Chicago
1917 HL published Story of the Automobile, Its
History and Development From 1760 to 1917
1920 United States Federal
Census - Pondera County, Montana - age 57 - Financier Banking
Herbert L Barber, Martha, Haskell (27) & Bernice (15)
1920 United States Federal Census
- Chicago, Illinois - Herbert L Barber, Elizabeth, Bernice (16), Martha (mother) & Florence (housekeeper)
1922 Appleton
Wisconsin Crescent - November 28, 1922 - H.L. Barber of Chicago charged with fraud
1930 United States
Federal Census - Milton, Dupage, Illinois (April 15, 1930) - age 64
Herbert L Barber & Florence
- age 64 - Retired
1930 United States Federal Census - Williams, Pondera, Montana (April 24,
1930)
1937 H.L. Barber died January 13, 1937 in Williams, Montana
1937 H.L. Barber was buried in Wheaton, Illinois at nearby
Oak Woods Cemetery in Chicago, Illinois
Maude Kathleen
Brown Birth:
March 1870 in Pennsylvania
Father born in Ohio and Mother born in New York Marriage #1: Herbert
Lee Barber on September 11, 1891 and divorced on September 2, 1897
Marriage #2: A. C. Koenig in 1898 & lived in Grand Island and Omaha Nebraska.
Arnold C. Koenig born ~1871 in Nebraska, lived in Grand Island, Hall,
Nebraska in 1880
Death: 1904
Burial:
Grand Island Cemetery Grand Island, Hall County, Nebraska - Plot: 6-16

1900 US Census - Grand Island, Hall, Nebraska - (Line 100) Arnold age 29
1900 US Census - Grand Island, Hall, Nebraska - (Line 1)
Kathleen age 30
Herbert
and Maude's Child:
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Haskell Lee
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Birth: ~1893 in Chicago, Illinois
Death: at 11:30 P.M., Saturday, March 30, 1935
of pneumonia in Williams Montana
Military: Illinois PVT 1CL US Army Burial: Lakeview Cemetery in
Valier Montana.
Picture of Haskell
Lee and Bernice Elizabeth Barber ~1906 |
1910 United States Federal Census
- Chicago, Cook, Illinois - age 18 - Clerk Electrical
1917 World War I Draft
Registration - Teton County, Montana - age 25 - occupation "Ditch Rider"
1920 United States Federal
Census - Pondera County, Montana - age 27 - Manager General Store
1930 United States Federal Census - Williams,
Pondera, Montana (April 2, 1930) - age 37 - Manager of the General Store 1935 Haskell inherited the General Store
1930 United States
Federal Census - Great Falls, Cascade, Montana (May 7, 1930) - age 37 - Clerk - Odd Jobs
Martha Elizabeth
"Mattie" Graham
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Birth:
September 1,
1870 at Olivet, Mahaska, Iowa Father:
Isaiah Alexandra Graham 1836-1923
Mother:
Rachel Elizabeth Campbell 1839-1882
Marriage#1: William Walker
Marriage#2: Herbert Lee Barber on August 16, 1901
Death: April 24, 1922 in Portland Oregon of a poisonous Goitre
Burial: May 2, 1922 in the Oak Woods Cemetery in Chicago Illinois.

Obituary:
Obituary Williams-Manson Newspaper (April,May,June-1922)
Scanned
document of
Graham Family
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1910 United States Federal Census
- Chicago, Cook, Illinois - "Elizabeth" age 39
1909 Herbert moved
to Montana in 1909 but Martha continued to live in their home in Chicago
Illinois until 1912.
1912 Mattie and daughter Bernice
moved from Chicago to Williams, Montana
1920 United States
Federal Census - Pondera County, Montana - "Martha E." age 42
Martha's niece
Elizabeth "Bess" McNair
was born Aug 17, 1889 in Blair, Washington, Nebraska
The daughter of William McNair 1851-1903 and Rachel Elizabeth
Graham 1861-1903.
She was orphaned when she was 14 years old and
lived with Herbert and Martha at their home in Roger's Park,
Chicago until she graduated high school. She
was three years older then Haskell. Bess was a
teacher in Nebraska
1910 United States Federal Census
- Chicago, Cook, Illinois - "Bess" age 20
She married Victor West Reynoldson 1890-1964
Letter to
Mrs. V. W. Reynoldson "Bess" living in Boone, Nebraska in 1935
Bess had
five sons : Dale, Bob, Warren, Kenneth, Graham and one daughter
Greek (Violet).
Bess died
in 1976 in Columbus Nebraska -
Columbus Telegram, May 4, 1976 Obituary
Mattie's brother and Bess's uncle Albert Graham lived at
1230 East 69th St. Chicago
in 1938
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Letter from H.L. Barber to Mrs. V. W. Reynoldson regarding the passing of
Haskell Barber
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Letter from Bernice Barber to Bess Reynoldson in 1938 of First State Bank of
Williams letterhead
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Postcard mailed from Williams Montana postoffice in 1929
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Anna (Nelson) BARRETT worked for
H.L. Barber Co. in Williams Montana.
Herbert and Mattie's Child:
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Bernice Elizabeth
1910 United States Federal Census
- Chicago, Cook, Illinois - age 6
1920 United
States Federal Census - Pondera County, Montana - age 15
1935 Bernice inherited the Machinery Hall
1937 Prior to H.L. Barber's death, Bernice worked at The First State Bank of Williams 1937 After H.L. Barbers death and the liquidation of The First State Bank of Williams Bernice moved H.L. Barber's house to land in Manson which she owned. 1979 Bernice lived in California
1983 Bernice did in January in Glendale, Los Angeles, California
Florence M Metzger
Birth:
~1890 in Illinois per 1930 census information
Father born in Ohio, Mother born in Illinois
Marriage #3: Herber and Florence married on October 21, 1923
Death: 1944
1930
United States Federal Census MT & IL - Herbert L Barber & Florence - age 40

1937 After H.L. Barber's death, Florence moved to
Conrad
1944 Florence died in Conrad?
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H. L. Barber Company |
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Great Northern Building 1908 20 West Jackson Boulevard Chicago Illinois |
 Great Northern Hotel
(originally Chicago Hotel)
Architect: D.H. Burnham and Company
1890-92, northeast corner of
Dearborn St. and Jackson Blvd
demolished in 1940.
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H.L. Barber's Eastern business was in the Great Northern
Building in Chicago which housed an office, cafe, printing shop, etc. It was located midblock
between the Great Northern Hotel and State Street. The Great Northern Theatre was in back of the
office tower, with the Majestic Hotel enclosing it on the north. It was constructed in 1895
and had 17 floors. This building no longer exists.
This was where the Williams-Manson News was printed and
then sent to Williams, Montana to be distributed in that area.
Hearings Before
the Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office 1911 ... - Google Books Result PDF
Other Business in the building : Blackstone Institute,
Law Book Publishers and Sellers, 20 W. Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Ill.
H.L. Barber had a home in Wheaton, outside Chicago, and
commuted to his office in Chicago from there occasionally. Most of the time he stayed in
living quarters at his place of business in Chicago. He spent his winters in Chicago and
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20 W. Jackson Boulevard Chicago Illinois
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Making
Money Make Money by Herbert Lee “H. L.” Barber
Written nearly one hundred years ago in
1912, was inspired by the popularity of his monthly financial
periodical, Investing for Profit, which at the time was the
largest exclusively financial publication in America.
After eight years of editing
Investing for Profit, published
by H.L. Barber & Company of Chicago, “H.L.” decided to write this first
book, and it too gained worldwide acceptance and fostered his economic
and investment advice to readers hungry for knowledge on the subject.
The magazine was published from 1890 into the 1930’s, and in 1917, H.L.
wrote a sequel to this first book entitled similarly to the magazine as
Investing for Profits, and an ample audience awaited its
arrival.
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Making Money Make Money
or a Primer of Investment
by H. L. Barber
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing Company
Pub. Date: May 2003
ISBN-13: 9780766160453
320pp
Available in Paperback from BARNES & NOBLE |
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One good investment is worth a life time of toil.
H.L. Barber 1920
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Investing for
Profits H.L. Barber published 1921 by The Munson Press Company Chicago IL |
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Story of the Automobile
(9.4MB)
Its
History and Development From 1760 to 1917
by H. L. Barber, Economist and Financial Writer
Early owners of cars learned by bitter experience what it meant to have a screw loose or a tire put out of
business in a town where the supply stores did not sell that particular screw or that particular tire. . . .
High maintenance and repair costs ate up many an automobile buyer in the early days of the craze. It wasn't the
original cost, although that was high enough; it was the upkeep. |
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Story of the Automobile: Its History and
Development from 1760 to 1917
by
Herbert Lee Barber
(Hardcover)
This scarce antiquarian book is included in Kessinger Publishing's special Legacy Reprint Series. In the
interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, they have chosen to reproduce
this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing
text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this
work is culturally important, they have made it available as a part of their commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
Available in Hardcover and Paperback from BARNES & NOBLE |
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1920 Business and Credit Directory - Pondera
County Montana |
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Wheaton Illinois
H.L. Barber had a home in Wheaton, outside Chicago, and
commuted to his office in Chicago from there occasionally. Most of the time he stayed in
living quarters at his place of business in Chicago. He spent his winters in Chicago and
summers at Williams, Montana. |
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Williams & Manson Montana

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Williams School
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In 1933 President Roosevelt officially signed a Proclamation
declaring a Bank Holiday to go from March 6, Monday, to Thursday. All the banks in the nation were
closed to review their condition. The great depression had been going on for a number of years and
people were unable to pay their bank loans. The assets they put up, mostly farms, simply had no buyers
so the banks were not able to sell them or had to sell them at a greatly depressed value. Now days of
course the government would step in and bail out the banks at taxpayers expense, but this was prior to
1933 and the banks were losing assets. The First State Bank of Williams was a solid business and was the first bank to open after the 1933 bank
holiday. In 1937, after H.L. Barber's death, The First State Bank was liquidated and all
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"Oriental Limited" & "The Empire Builder" Both town sites were located next to the East-West railway and were
stops for the famous East-West train called "Oriental
Limited" and later the “The Empire
Builder”, which HL used to commute between Williams and Chicago.
Great Northern Empire Builder (Google Books)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_Limited
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_Builder
The
Oriental Limited entered service in December 1905 as a St.
Paul–Seattle train; the eastern terminus was extended to Chicago
in 1909. Once the premiere train on its route, it was downgraded
to secondary status in 1929, when the Great Northern's new
Empire Builder passenger train was inaugurated. The
Oriental Limited name disappeared in 1931, and during the
Great Depression and beyond the Great Northern operated only
a single through train between Chicago and the coast. The Oriental Limited name returned in 1947, when the railroad's
secondary through train was resumed, but that train was finally
renamed the Western Star in 1951.
 Montana Western leaving Valier to go through Williams and on to Conrad.
-- G.A. Sullivan Picture |
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Interesting Tid-Bits found on the Internet:
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Barber Mine (H.L. Barber Mine), Paron, Saline Co., Arkansas, USA A quartz mine worked in 1943 for WWII quartz needs. Located 3 miles SSW of Paron, Saline County, Arkansas.
Mineralization is quartz veins in Stanley Shale.
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