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From Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette, Wisconsin, publ. 1901 - page - 287
A. H. BARBER, M.D., an eminent physician and surgeon and honored resident of Lancaster, Grant county, was born in Fairfield, Vt., in 1843, a son of John J. BARBER. Dr. BARBER's father died a number of years ago, at the advanced age of eighty-eight years; his mother, who was born in 1819, is still living. The doctor is the only son, and he has two sisters, namely: Mrs. Eleanor DURAND, of Crookston, Minn.; and Mrs. Lucy TOMLINSON, of Osage, Iowa.
Dr. BARBER was brought to Grant county by his parents in 1845. His earlier education was acquired in the public schools, and at a private school in Lancaster, and for a year he was a student in Beloit College. He began the study of medicine with Dr. HYDE in 1866, and attended his first course of lectures at the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor. In 1870 he was graduated from the Long Island (N.Y.) College Hospital, and later took a course of instruction at the College of Physicians & Surgeons, beginning practice in Lancaster, where his ability was soon recognized, and where he has ever been favored with a large and lucrative patronage.
To the marriage of the Doctor with Miss Lucy HOLLOWAY have been born two children, viz.: Elvira, wife of N. B. BAILEY, cashier of the bank of Baldwin, Wis.; and Herbert, who died in infancy.
This biography generously submitted by Carol Holmbeck