Barnes, William D. D.</FONT></I></B> <body bgcolor="F0F8FF" text=#0000aa vLink=#808080 aLink=#ff0000 link="red" <B> <BR> <HR> <BR><BR> <CENTER> <H2><FONT color=#ff0000>HISTORICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ILLINOIS<BR>& HISTORY OF MORGAN COUNTY<BR>Munsell Publishing Company, Publishers, 1906.</FONT></H2></CENTER><BR><BR> <HR> <P><FONT color=#ff0000><B>BARNES, (REV.) WILLIAM, D. D.</FONT></B> , was born of Scotch ancestry in Portsmouth, Ohio, February 8, 1814. He graduated from Yale in 1839, and among his classmates were Charles Sumner and Edward Everett. In the following year he completed his theological course at Yale and began his pastorate at Foxboro, Mass., being created a D. D. by his alma mater in 1850. On August 14, 1842, at Coventry, Conn., he was married to Eunice A Hubbard, who was of the Nathan Hale stock. In 1845 he was called to the pastorate of a large Christian Church in Boston, and while so officiating preached the funeral discourse over the remains of Daniel Webster. In 1854, his health failing, he came West; from 1855 to 1860 was pastor of the Congregational Church at Alton, Ill., and then, to educate his children, removed to Jacksonville, Ill., which he made his home until his death, on May 1, 1890. Although retired from active work, he made his presence felt in the literary circles of the city, almost from its organization being a prominent figure in the Literary Union. Dr. Barnes was a great reader, an original thinker, a strong writer and a power in many ways. His first wife died May 18, 1874, and August 1, 1878, he was married to Susan E. Sewall. Rev. William Barnes left by his first union four children: Judge William H. Barnes, who lived in this city until November, 1885, when he was appointed by President Cleveland Associate Justice of the Territory of Arizona, and died at Tucson, Ariz., November 10, 1904; Lieut. Nathan Hale Barnes, of the United States Navy, who died at Hartford, Conn., January 1, 1899; Mrs. Mary E. Elson, of Freeport, Ill., and Judge Charles A. Barnes, of Jacksonville. </B><BR><BR> <HR> <CENTER> <P><a href="1906index.htm">1906 Index</a></FONT> <P><FONT size=+1><a href="../../index.html">Home</a></FONT></CENTER><HR></P></BODY></html> <style> .rwFooter { font-family: Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; clear: both; } </style> <br> <div class="rwLayoutTopBottomAd"> <center><div id='rwsites-ldr-bottom'></div></center> </div> <div id="footer" class="footer"><div class="rwFooter" id="footer_div"> <hr width="90%" size="1" noshade style="text-align:center; margin: 20px auto;"> <p> <font size="-2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> RootsWeb is funded and supported by <a href="https://www.ancestry.com/s33216/t10989/grid1005/rd.ashx">Ancestry.com</a> and our loyal RootsWeb community. <a href="https://home.rootsweb.com/support">Learn more.</a> <br><br> <a id="Ftr_About_Link" href="https://corporate.ancestry.com/">About Us</a> | <a id="Ftr_ContactUs_Link" href="https://support.rootsweb.com/s/contactsupport">Contact Us</a> | <a id="Ftr_Legal_Link" href="https://www.ancestry.com/cs/legal/copyright-policy">Copyright</a> | <a href="https://useraccount.rootsweb.com/websites/reportInappropriateWebsite?url=/~ilmaga/morgan/1906bios/barneswmdd.html">Report Inappropriate Material</a> <br> <a id="Ftr_CorporateInfo_Link" href="https://www.ancestry.com/corporate/">Corporate Information</a> | <a id="Ftr_Privacy_Link" href="https://www.ancestry.com/cs/legal/privacyphilosophy">Privacy</a> | <a id="Ftr_TermsAndConditions_Link" href="https://www.ancestry.com/cs/legal/termsandconditions">Terms and Conditions</a> | <a id="Ftr_ccpaAncestry_Link" href="https://www.ancestry.com/cs/legal/privacystatement#personal-info-categories">CCPA Notice at Collection</a> </font> </p> </div> <script type="text/javascript"> var utag_data = { page_name:'ancestry rootsweb : hostedsites : ilmaga' }; </script>    <script async type="text/javascript" src="https://prod.adspsp.com/adb.5781260.min.js"></script> <script async type="text/javascript" src="https://securepubads.g.doubleclick.net/tag/js/gpt.js"></script> <script async type="text/javascript" src="https://c.amazon-adsystem.com/aax2/apstag.js"></script>  <noscript><iframe src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-NSWCNL5" height="0" width="0" style="display:none;visibility:hidden"></iframe></noscript>  <script type="text/javascript"> (function(a,b,c,d){ var env='prod'; try{ var domain = window.document.location.hostname.split('.'); domain = (domain.length > 2) ? domain[1] : domain[0]; if(/loc/.test(domain) || /dev/.test(domain)){ env = 'dev'; } else if (/stage/.test(domain)){ env = 'qa'; } }catch(e){} a='//tags.tiqcdn.com/utag/ancestry/rootsweb/'+ env +'/utag.js'; b=document;c='script';d=b.createElement(c);d.src=a;d.type='text/java'+c;d.async=true;a=b.getElementsByTagName(c)[0]; a.parentNode.insertBefore(d,a) })(); </script>