Biography of Christian Barkey, page 557.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Christian Barkey, farmer and stock-raiser, Fairfield Township, is a native 
of Westmoreland County, Pa., born April 6, 1820, a son of John and Susannah 
(Bussard) Barkey, natives of Northampton County, Pa., of German descent.  
When he was five years of age his parents moved to Ohio and settled in 
Holmes County, where he was reared and lived till 1851, when he came to De 
Kalb and settled on a track of land which is now his valuable farm in 
Fairfield Township.  This land he had entered about 1841, and at the time of 
his settlement it was wholly unimproved and heavily timbered.  He now has it 
under a good state of cultivation, and his improvements are among the best 
in the township.  Mr. Barkey was married March 13, 1851, to Hannah Herrington, 
a daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Long) Herrington, of Ohio.  They are the 
parents of nine children, eight of whom are living---Mary Ann, John W., 
George A., Henry, Sarah E., Samuel, Thomas and James F.  Calvin is deceased.  
In politics Mr. Barkey affiliates with the Democratic party.

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Arlene Goodwin
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