California Biographies

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm

Source:
History of the state of California and biographical record of the San Joaquin 
Valley, California. An historical story of the state's marvelous growth from 
its earliest settlement to the present time.
Prof. James Miller Guinn , A. M.
The Chapman Publishing Co., Chicago 1905
Notes: Missing Page: 865-866,983-984,1175-1176


SCHUYLER A. BARBER, M. D. The success achieved by Dr. Barber has been entirely 
the result of his own efforts, directed by the energy and ambition which are distinguishing char- 
acteristics of the members of this family. In Portersville, where he is located, and the sur- 
rounding country, he is held in the highest esteem for the ability he has evinced in his profes- 
sion, the earnestness and thought he gives to his work, and the spirit in which he ministers to the 
needs of suffering humanity. A native of Wolcottville, La Grange county. Ind.. he was born 
September 20, 1872. and was next to the youngest in a family of seven daughters and two sons. 
His father. Leonard Barber, was born in Ohio, in which state the paternal grandfather had be- 
come an early settler from New York. In young manhood Leonard Barber entered Jefferson Med- 
ical College of Philadelphia, from which he was graduated with the degree of M. D. He located 
in Kendallville, Noble county. Ind.. where he engaged in the practice of medicine, and later 
in Wolcottville. where his death occurred. He was a Knight Templar, and politically was a 
stanch Republican. His wife, formerly Adeline Alleman, a native of New York state, survives 
him, now making her residence in the old home in Indiana. 

In Wolcottville Schuyler A. Barber was reared until 1888, receiving his education in the public 
and high schools of that place, graduating from the latter when sixteen years of age. After his 
father's death he came west to California and in Tulare City found employment as a clerk in 
a lawyer's office, where he remained eighteen months. He then came to Portersville and with 
his brother-in-law, W. W. Henry, established a nursery, raising orange and lemon trees princi- 
pally, and succeeded in building up a lucrative business. His business career, however, was 
only a means toward an end. for it enabled him to take up the study which had been the ambition 
of his life. Disposing of his interest in the nursery in 1896, he entered Cooper Medical Col- 
lege of San Francisco, from which he was graduated in the fall of 1899, after a four years' 
course, with the degree of M. D. He immediately returned to Portersville, where his ability 
in business lines had won him recognition, and has since demonstrated the talent which inspired 
his love for his chosen profession. He has met with success as a physician and surgeon', and 
holds high rank among professional men of the vicinity of Portersville. He has built up an ex- 
tended practice, which has brought him satisfactory returns. In addition to his profession he 
is also interested in orange growing to some extent and gives some time and attention to this 
work. 

In San Francisco Dr. Barber was united in marriage with Edith F. Henry, a native of La 
Grange county, Ind., and the daughter of Oliver O. Henry, who is represented on another page 
in this volume. Born to the doctor and his wife is one son, Philip Schuyler. Dr. Barber is city 
health officer and examining physician for six of the old line life insurance companies, as well 
as the Woodmen of the World, Modern Woodmen of America and Independent Order of For- 
esters, being a member of these three orders. Politically he is a stanch Republican.