Wayne County Biographies



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W. B. Barefoot

W. B. Barefoot, one of the progressive, wide-awake young business men of Cambridge City, is a native of Wayne county, his birth having occurred on the 8th of January, 1862. His parents, S. R. and Barbara (Armstrong) Barefoot, were both born and reared in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. In 1860 they became residents of Indiana, which state was thenceforth their place of abode. For some time Mr. Barefoot, Sr., was engaged in business at Dublin, Milton, Germantown and Jacksonburg, but from 1871 until his death, in 1890, he lived in Cambridge City. For a period of fifteen years he was extensively interested in the poultry trade, and succeeded in building up a large and remunerative business in this line.

When our subject was a small child the family removed to Cambridge City, and hence the association and memories of almost his whole life cling around this vicinity. His education was obtained in the public schools of this place, and in his boyhood he assisted his father in business, and learned the various features of the trade. Thus familiar with the enterprise, he was enabled to assume the management of the business at the death of his father, and has since continued it with marked success. His trade is exclusively wholesale, and the points to which he chiefly ships are Boston, New York and Philadelphia, from four to five thousand chickens and turkeys being crated and sent to the eastern markets each week. Mr. Barefoot is methodical, prompt and far-sighted in his business transactions, meeting his obHgations faithfully and inspiring confidence in all with whom he has dealings. He is a member of Cambridge City Lodge, No. 5, Free & Accepted Masons, and is connected with Cambridge City Lodge, No. 9, Knights of Pythias.

Source:
Biographical and Genealogical History of Wayne, Fayette, Union and Franklin Counties, Indiana, Volume 1, The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, 1899