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BIOGRAPHICAL AND PORTRAIT CYCLOPEDIA

where there was a party issue at stake. Not only has he voted with it, but has exerted his influence in behalf of its success and taken a prominent part in its councils and conventions. He has held various local offices, among them that of burgess of Ebensburg, and, in 1893, was elected to the office of county treasurer of Cambria county, a position which his well-known business ability rendered him eminently qualified to fill. In addition to the above, he was in 1896 made one of the national delegates at large from Pennsylvania to the Republican National convention at St. Louis in the memorable campaign of McKinley and Hobart.     In the fraternal world, Mr. Barker stands deservedly high, and is a member of a number of prominent societies whose objects are to promote a feeling of brotherhood among men. He belongs to Summit Lodge, No. 312, F. and A.M., of Ebensburg; Portage Chapter, No. 195, R.A.M., of Johnstown; Kedron Commandery, No. 18, I.O.O.F., of Ebensburg, and John M. Jones Post, G.A.R., at Ebensburg.     He entered the Civil War in 1864, in Company C of the Two Hundred and Ninth regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer infantry, as a corporal, and served to the close of the war.     February 8, 1870, he married Maggie A., daughter of George C. K. Zahm, of Ebensburg, and to this union has been born one son, Oliver G. A., who graduated from Lafayette College, in the class of 1895, and is now a student of medicine in the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia. JUDGE AUGUSTINE V. BARKER, judge of the Forty-seventh judicial district of Pennsylvania, and a lawyer and jurist of recognized ability, was born June 20, 1849, in

Lovell, Oxford county, Maine. For the biographical sketch of his father, Hon. Abraham A. Barker, refer to another page of this work.     Augustine V. Barker was prepared for college in various academies of Maine. In 1868 he entered Dartmouth college, from which well-known institution he graduated, in 1872, with the degree of A. B., receiving the degree of A. M. from the same institution in 1875. His youthful ambition was to become a lawyer, hence after finishing his collegiate course he registered as a student in the office of Judge E. W. Evans, of Chicago, and later in the office of Shoemaker & Sechler, of Ebensburg, and after completing the prescribed course was admitted to the bar of Cambria county, in August, 1874, and in 1875 to practice before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and in 1876, before the United States Circuit and District courts. He practiced his profession with unusual success from the date of his admission until 1890, when he was appointed by Gov. James A. Beaver to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Judge R. L. Johnson. At the next regular election in the autumn of 1891, he was elected for a full term of ten years.     June 1, 1875, Judge Barker and Kate F., a daughter of George C. K. Zahm, were united in marriage, and their union has resulted in the birth of the following children: Fred., born May 6, 1876; Lovell Maine, born December 12, 1884, and Helen, born August 18, 1890.     In 1862, at the time of the battle of Antietam, when the Confederates threatened the invasion of Pennsylvania, although but thirteen years of age, he joined the "emergency" service, organized to repel and drive back the hosts of Lee.     Judge Barker possesses in an eminent

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