Tuolumne County Biographies

HENRY P. BARBER

Submitted by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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English, but came young to this country and studied law with John Morrill, the 
celebrated jurist.  Settling in Tuol�umne at a time when law was at a discount, 
he became clerk in a store.  Later he opened an office in Sonora, and be�came at 
once prominent among her famous lawyers, and was elected District Attorney.  He 
was a high-toned and cultivated gentleman, who possessed talents of the highest 
order, second to none in the State, says Mr. Dorsey.  Leaving Tuolumne for a 
wider field, he settled in San Francisco, practicing his profession, and died 
there.
�A History of Tuolumne County, California� B.F. Alley, 1882.  Pg. 401.