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FRANK BARNES
Vol. 3, p. 969

Where a mere youth Mr. Barnes gained his initial experience in
connection with the petroleum industry and in later years he has been
prominently identified with the development and production of oil and
gas in various fields. Since 1905 he has been actively concerned with
these important lines of enterprise in Oklahoma and he maintains his
residence in the City of Tulsa, with business offices at 612 Daniels
Building. Mr. Barnes claims the old Keystone State as the place of
his nativity and is a scion of old and honored families of that
historic commonwealth. He was born in Pleasantville, Venango County,
Pennsylvania, on the 28th of September 1871, and was the fourth in
order of birth in a family of seven children, all of whom are living
except one. He is a son of Stephen A. and Caroline G. (GEORGE)
Barnes, both natives of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, where the
former was born in 1837 and the latter in 1842, the death of the
father having occurred in 1893 and that of the mother in 1905.

Stephen A. Barnes was one of the pioneers in the development work in
the Oil City, Pennsylvania, and later was engaged in the oil
development and supply business in the City of Pit Hole. Thereafter
he was an influential factor in oil development and production in the
field in Venango County, Pennsylvania, where the family home was
maintained at Pleasantville at the time of the birth of the subject
of this review. Stephen A. Barnes rendered specially valuable service
in behalf of the Union during the climacteric period of the Civil
War, and his intrepid valor led him into many specially dangerous
positions and hazardous undertakings, since the major part of his
service was in capacity of scout, and in the command of Gen. Benjamin
HARRISON, his efficiency and courage having made him distinctly
persona non grata to the Confederate authorities, who offered a large
reward for his capture. He was a man of strong character and
impregnable integrity in all of the relations of life, commanded the
confidence and good will of all who came within the compass of his
influence, and was a loyal and patriotic citizen, a stalwart in the
camp of the republican party and a valued member of the Grand Army of
the Republic.

The public schools of his native village afforded to Frank Barnes
his early educational advantages, which were supplemented b an
effective course in a business college in the City of Cleveland,
Ohio. After his training he held for a short time a position of
bookkeeper, and he then identified himself with the oil industry, in
Warren County, Pennsylvania, where he was actively concerned with the
drilling of new wells, as was he later also in Butler County, that
state.

In 1905 Mr. Barnes came to Oklahoma Territory and identified himself
actively with the development of oil and gas wells in the field about
Bartlesville, Washington County, his operations later having extended
into the Bristow fields, in Creek County, where he did a successful
business in the leasing of properties and the developing of oil and
gas. With these lines of enterprise he is still actively concerned
and his interest are of important order, his business activities
having been centralized at Tulsa during the period of his residence
in this city.

Mr. Barnes is a liberal and progressive citizen, is a republican in
national politics, but in local affairs, where general government
issues are not involved, he gives his support to the men and measures
meeting the approval of his judgment. He is a trustee and a member of
the executive broad of Kendall College, and both he and his wife hold
membership in the Presbyterian Church.

In Bartlesville Lodge, No. 284, Ancient Free & Accepted Masons, at
Bartlesville, this state, Mr. Barnes was raised to the degree of
Master Mason, and he still retains his affiliation with this lodge.
In his home city he holds membership in Tulsa Chapter, No. 20,
Knights Templars; Akdar Temple; Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of
the Mystic Shrine. He is also an appreciative member of Tulsa Lodge,
No. 946, Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks, to identify himself
with which he received a dimit from the lodge at Bartlesville.

On the 28th of February 1900, was solemnized the marriage of Mr.
Barnes to Miss Hortense MALLORY, of Toledo, Ohio, and the three
children of this union are Reginald William, Elizabeth, and Katherine
L.

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