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Ohio Columbus Barber Biography

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BARBER, Ohio C., president of the Diamond Match company, was born April 20, 1841, in Middlebury, N. Y. In 1880, The Barber Match company, of which he was at the head, was making over one-fourth of the matches manufactured in the United States. About this time, Mr. Barber saw the advantages of consolidating a number of the leading manufactories, and instead of thirty factories being required for their manufacture, ninety per cent. of the matches in America are now manufactured in five factories. In 1889 The American Straw Board company was organized with $6,000,000 capital, with Mr. Barber as president, in which position he served until 1894 In 1891 Mr. Barber and associates founded the town of Barberton, Ohio. He is president of The Ohio Tube company, of Warren, Ohio, and of The Barberton Belt Line Railroad company.

Thomas William Herringshaw, Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago: American Publishers' Association, 1901) 66.