John W. Barrows evidently dropped from the sky. I have an ending but no beginning . He was born 1834 NY. His father born in NY and mother born in Ireland .I have no names for his parents or siblings and would very much like to find them .He has been somewhat of a mystery for many years.
In abt. 1875 he married Mary A. COOPER and they had 7 children born in Texas and Arizona .Five of these children survived to adulthood to be orphaned when their parents died in AZ. They were sent back to Texas to an aged grandmother and Uncle .
The 1800s where the end of the industrial revolution and the birth of scientists.
The Industrial Revolution began around 1760 and ran through the 1840's. Then began the birth of the profession of science. Louis Pasteur, Charles Darwin, Michael Faraday, Thomas Edison, and Nikola Te...
I love genealogy and have been doing it for many years . My Main surnames are : Stephens , Smith , Barrows , Gaines ,Coward, Hildreth ,Easterwood , Duke , Story/Storey, Hardy, Brandon, Packer