Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 
1886.  Barren County.

HON. J. S. SMITH BARLOW, Sr, was born near Glasgow, Barren Co., Ky., May 
13, 1802. He is the only survivor of the family from which he descended. 
His father, Ambrose Barlow, was born in Culpeper County, Va., in 1766, 
and married Miss Ann Smith, a daughter of John Smith, of Virginia.  He 
afterwards resided for some years near Danville, Ky., and in 1801, 
purchased an extensive tract of the famous cane land, lying on the 
waters of Boyd's Creek, in Barren Conty; he moved thence to Monroe 
County, KY.  J. Smith Barlow received a good school training in early 
life, and for a few years was engaged in teaching, but developing a more 
than ordinary ability for the affairs of public life, he purchased, in 
1826, one-half of the sheriffship of the county of Monroe.  Upon the 
expiration of his term of office, in 1828, after a sharp contest, he was 
elected to a seat in the lower house of the Kentucky Legislature. On the 
expiration of his term he was selected senator from his district - 
Clinton, Monroe and Cumberland Counties; but his ineligibility on 
account of non-age prevented his taking his seat in the body until the 
following year, when he entered upon the duties of his office.  In the 
year 1852 he moved to Glasgow, Ky., and was the first president of the 
Glasgow branch of the Louisville & Nashville Railway, which office he 
resigned upon his nomination for the State Senate from the counties of 
Barren, Metcalfe and Monroe; he was a member during three special 
sessions.  During his legislative career Mr. Barlow was thrice nominated 
for the speakership of the House, and twice nominated in the Senate for 
lieutenant-governor of the State.  He was a member of the Constitutional 
Convention in 1849, and one of the Breckinridge electors in 1860. He 
served with honor and distinction in the two houses of the State 
Legislature twenty-seven years.  In the reorgination of the Democratic 
party in Kentucky, after the close of the war, in convention at 
Louisville, he had the honor of placing Alvin Duvall in nomination for 
judge of the court of appeals, to which office he was elected in 1866.  
This circumstance he remembers as one of the most pleasant reminiscences 
of his life.  He has been a man of very strict habits in life; has never 
used spiritous liquors or tobacco in any form; has always been blessed 
with health; and in all his official career has never failed to be in 
his place when duty called him. He has always been a straight Democrat, 
and never took a new departure or lost sight of the land-marks of his 
party.  Through untiring energy and an excellent business ability, Mr. 
Barlow has acquired a fine property, a part of which is his home place 
of 1,000 acres in Barren County.  He has had the honor of presiding as 
moderator in six separate religious discussions.  He was married, 
February 10, 1831, to Miss Jane H. Howard, a daughter of Maj. Harmon 
Howard, of Barren County.  She was a member of the Baptist Church, and 
departed this life December 16, 1863, leaving eight children.  The sons 
are Harmon H., Joseph P., John S., Jr, J. Thomas; the daughters are Mrs. 
Bettie Ritchie, widow of the late F. E. Ritchie, of the firm of Trumam 
Swan & Ritchie, Louisville, Ky.; Mrs. T. W. Bibb, Franklin, Ky., Mrs. C. 
C. Terry, Glasgow, Ky.; and Mrs. J. H. Yancey, Louisville.  The subject 
of this sketch died March 1886, in the eighty-fourth year of his age, 
and was buried at his home in the presene of a very large concourse of 
friends.

Barlow Smith Duvall Howard Ritchie Bibb Terry Yancey
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Clinton Culpeper-VA Cumberland Danville-Boyle Franklin-Simpson
Glasgow-Barren Louisville-Jefferson Monroe

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