- RICHARD H. BARLOW is a prominent and popular photographer
of Janesville, Rock County,
- and because he puts into his work genuine artistic skill
and discernment has made it a great success. He is always seeking
the artistic effect, and whatever he sends forth to the world
has always a touch of the light, and is not simply a mere reproduction
of the outward alone.
- Mr. BARLOW was born near Delavan, Walworth Co., Wis., April
2, 1864, son of Silas V. and
- Antoinette (GOFF) BARLOW, natives of New York and Wisconsin,
respectively. They had two children: Richard H., whose name
introduces this article; and a child, who died in infancy. Silas
V. BARLOW came from Elmira, N.Y., to Wisconsin with his parents
when fifteen years old, and located with them in Walworth County.
There he grew to manhood and there he engaged in the cultivation
of his own farm near Delavan, in which thrifty Wisconsin city
he is now living with his wife, and is engaged in the livery
business; he moved into town seventeen years ago. Politically
he is a Republican. His wife attends the Methodist Church.
- Rev. Silas U. BARLOW, our subject's grandfather, was a Methodist
clergyman, born in New
- York, of English ancestry. He came West in the early days,
and worked at carpentering and farming through the week, preaching
on Sundays, frequently making long trips on horseback in order
to fill his engagements. He died in Delavan, Wis., at the age
of eighty-three, leaving a large family. Stephen C. GOFF, the
maternal grandfather of our subject, was born in Buffalo, N.Y.,
and was an early settler in Walworth County, owning a farm at
Heart Prairie, Wis.; in early life he was a painter and glazier.
He reared a small family, and was over seventy at the time of
his death.
- Richard H. BARLOW was reared on the farm in Walworth County,
and was afforded
- opportunity for the acquisition of a very good education.
He attended the district school, passed through the public schools
of Delavan, and attended Clark's Business College one winter.
Leaving school, he had charge of a stationary engine one season,
and then began the study of photography, which has become his
life work. In November, 1893, he came to Janesville and in company
with Alphonso E. HATCH and Robert H. FITCH, bought the photograph
gallery of Mr. TURNER, the business being conducted under the
firm name of BARLOW, HATCH & Co., who together owned and
operated five studios. After a short time Mr. BARLOW sold out
his interest in the other studios, buying his partners' interest
in the Janesville gallery, which he has carried on most successfully
up to the present time. He stands high in his chosen calling,
and was a member of the executive committee of the Wisconsin
State Photographers' Association at its last annual meeting.
Mr. BARLOW attributes part of his success, at least, to the
excellent business training he had from this father, who conducted
an agricultural implement business in Delavan for many years,
and has also had livery barn there for sixteen years.
- Mr. BARLOW and Miss Gertrude M. HARPER were married Oct.
7, 1896. She is a daughter
- of Robert and Hannah (ATCHESON) HARPER, and is a lady of
much character, enjoying many friends, and sympathizing heartily
with her husband's artistic tastes and proclivities. Their home
is at No. 5 Jefferson avenue. Mr. BARLOW is a member of Oriental
Lodge, Knights of Pythias, and is a Republican in politics.
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- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin"
(c) 1901, p. 142.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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