David Barnhart and Ida C. Leacock

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Husband David Barnhart ^{1 2}

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           Born: 15 Apr 1832 - Derry Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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         Father: George Barnhart (1795-1864) 1 2
         Mother: Mary Hartzell (cal 1804-1873) 1 2

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       Marriage: 5 Apr 1870 3

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Wife Ida C. Leacock ³

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         Father: Joseph B. Leacock (      -      ) 3
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General Notes: Husband - David Barnhart

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He was reared principally in Unity township, Westmoreland County, PA, where he received his education in the common schools. When a boy he learned the trade of shoemaker, but in 1857 went to Schuyler County, IL, from there to Colorado; in 1859 left his business pursuits in the east to join the tide of adventurous spirits then setting westward to the new discovered gold-fields along the Rocky mountains. He became one of the pioneer gold miners of Colorado and remained in the territory of the “Centennial State” until 1861, when he returned to Pennsylvania. In September, 1862, he enlisted in Co. B, fifteenth Pa. Cavalry, par­ticipated in the battles of Antietam, Stone river, Chicamauga and Missionary Ridge, and was dis­charged at Nashville, TN, June 21, 1865. Returning home he was in the butchering busi­ness with his brother for three years. From 1868 to 1872 he conducted a store at Pleasant Unity. In 1872 he purchased a portable saw­mill which he operated for four years. In 1882 he built his store-rooms and engaged in the general mercantile business, filling his rooms with full and choice selected lines of groceries, dry goods, notions, hardware, clothing and provi­sions.
While in Colorado he and Charles Cowdrey and Andrew Sellers, who were both from Illinois, started the first manufacturing establishment in Denver City-it being a furniture factory.

1 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 422.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 164.

3 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 423.