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Personal data Henry S. Barricklow 

• He was born on December 17, 1798 in Fayette City, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States.Source 1
• He died on August 1, 1872 in Baldwin City, Douglas County, Kansas, United States, he was 73 years old.Sources 1, 2
• He is buried in Pioneer Cemetery.
• A child of Daniel Barricklow and Judith Oglevee
• This information was last updated on March 27, 2017.

Household of Henry S. Barricklow

He is married to Mary A. Lotton.

They got married on January 14, 1827 at Dearborn County, Dearborn County, Indiana, United States, he was 28 years old.Source 2

Child(ren):

1. William Barricklow  1828-1901 
2. Charlotte Barricklow  1831-1917 
3. Joseph Barricklow  1833-1902
4. George Ross Barricklow  1835-????
5. Sarah Julia Barricklow  1837-1927 
6. Mary Ann Barricklow  1839-1909 
7. Julia Barricklow  1840-± 1890
8. Sanford Cass Barricklow  1844-1919 
9. Henry Van Dyke Barricklow  1849-± 1923 

Event on January 14, 1827: Randolph Twp., Dearborn/Ohio Co., IN.Source 1

Notes about Henry S. Barricklow

From the United States Biographical Dictionary of Kansas. 1879
Page 410
HENRY BARRICKLOW
The Barricklow family were among the most prominent of the
free-state men of Kansas. The subject of this memoir was born
Fayette county, Pennsylvania, Dec. 7, 1798 and died near Baldwin
City, Douglas county, in I871. He was of German extraction and a
true,honorable, upright Christian gentleman. He married Miss
May Lotton in 1826, of Protestand Irish or Scotch descent, who
died at their residence in Kansas in1867. They were both members
of the Methodist Episcopal church and most devout Christian people.
For more than thirty years Mr. Barricklow had been steward and
class-leader in his church.
In 1852 he traveled over the eastern portion of Kansas on a tour of
observation, and determined, as soon as the country was opened to
settlement, to make his home on the plains of Kansas, and early
1853 removed to the then Territory of Kansas.
On the first breaking out of difficulties between the pro-slavery and
free-state factions, although formerly a prominent, pronounced
Democrat, he took positive grounds in favor of a free State, and
became in a good degree a leader among the moderate, prudent
but firm free-state men. His house became the home of hospitality,
generosity and shelter to the persecuted free-state men. In the early
days of Kansas there were few men who so liberally contributed to
sustain the cause, or gave so much of thie time and substance to
what they conscientiously esteemed the best interests of the country.
No stranger, poor or rich, high or low, was ever turned from his door.
He was an active friend of education, and one of the prime movers in
the origin and building up of Baker University, of which, for several
years, he was a trustee, and contributed several thousand dollars
toward its establishment and the purchase of land for its endowment.
Never an office-seeker, his strong good sense and judgment impelled
the free-state people to select him for many important and trying
positions in the early history of the Territory. For several years he was
one of the county commissioners of Douglas County, making an
efficient and useful officer. He affiliated but little in any organizations
except the church, which he held as teaching all the fundamental
principals essential to a good life and to future happiness.
These parents had nine children, all of whom survive, among them
William, a prominent public man of Kansas, and Joseph, a merchant
and county treasurer of Montgomery county.

In 1856 Farrington Barricklow and his brother Henry removed to Kansas, and laid out the town of Palmyra, now Baldwin City.
Henry Barricklow was one of the 13 charter members of the Baldwin City Methodist Episcopal Church and one of the founders of Baker University.
He was also county Commissioner and an active "free-stater".
The Educational Convention met at Henry Barricklow's home on March 18, 1857, where it was agreed to accept the Palmyra Association's proposition for the new college; and of this he was one of five members, later being a member of the Board of Trustees of Baker University, 1863-67 (Vice Pres. 1863-66).
Resided at Fayette Co. PA(1798-1813); Dearborn/Ohio Co., IN (1813-1859)
Douglas Co., KS(1859-1872)
Buried at Old Baldwin City Cemetery, Baldwin City, KS.

In 1856 Farrington Barricklow and his brother Henry removed to Kansas, and laid out the town of Palmyra, now Baldwin City.
Henry Barricklow was one of the 13 charter members of the Baldwin City Methodist Episcopal Church and one of the founders of Baker University.
He was also county Commissioner and an active "free-stater".
The Educational Convention met at Henry Barricklow's home on March 18, 1857, where it was agreed to accept the Palmyra Association's proposition for the new college; and of this he was one of five members, later being a member of the Board of Trustees of Baker University, 1863-67 (Vice Pres. 1863-66).

p. 294 John Baldwin and Son Milton Come to Kansas

SOME FOUNDERS OF BAKER UNIVERSITY

APPENDIX Vii

HENRY BARRICKLOW AND HIS FAMILY

Henry Barricklow, b. Fayette Co., PA, December 7, 1798; d. August 10,
1872. in 1826, he married Mary Lotton (d. 1866); both buried Baldwin
City Cemetery, now "Pioneer." On the monument is written "Two of the
founders of Baker University.'' He is said to have contributed several
thousand dollars toward its establishment, the purchase of land, and
for its endowment. In 1852, he traveled over Eastern Kansas to be ready
to select land as soon as the area was open for settlement. In 1856, he
returned from Indiana with his wife and their nine children to Palmyra
Township where he had preempted N\V 1/4 Sec 28 & SE 1/4 Sec 33
T 14 R 20 and built a cabin.'
A member of the Orignial Palmyra Association, he was a devoutly
religious person, ''Leader" of the first Methodist Class in Palmyra, as he
had been in Indiana (thirty-seven years without a break in his record).
Henry Barricklow was one of the thirteen charter members of the Baldwin
City M.E. Church. His children proudly recalled that their home was a
shelter-no one was turned away. He did not seek office, but was one
whose judgment was highly respected; e.g., he was County Commissioner
and prime mover for Baker University. Too much cannot be said for his
contribution to the founding of the towns of Palmyra and Baldwin City and
of Baker University.

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