"Portrait and Biographical Record of Hunterdon and Warren counties, New Jersey"
Chapman Publishing Company, New York and Chicago, 1898
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ISAAC BARBER, the present representative
of Warren County in the senate of New Jersey, was born at Forty Fort, Luzerne County,
Pa., September 4, 1854, and is a physician by
profession. His father, a native of Warren County, removed to Pennsylvania in 1858. The
senator received his early education in the public
schools, entered Blair Presbyterial Academy to
prepare for college in 1869, entered Lafayette in
1872 and graduated in 1876. He studied medicine under the preceptorship of Professor Traill
Green, of Easton, Pa., and graduated from the
University of Pennsylvania in 1879. For one
year he served as a medical referee in New York
City for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.
In July, 1880, he located at Phillipsburg, and
has since continued in active practice. He has
served as city physician and as a member of the
board of health for two years. He was appointed
pension examining surgeon under the Cleveland
administration July 18, 1893, and resigned June
1, 1S97, to take up the duties of senator. He is
of English extraction, a lineal descendant of John
Barber, Esq., who settled in Warren County as
early as 1735. He is a member of the various
medical and fraternal societies, notably of Phillipsburg Lodge No. 395, B. P. O. E.; Montun
Lodge No. 23, K. of P.; and Ortygia Company
No. 10, U. R. K. of P., in which organization he
fills the position of brigade surgeon.
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