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Note: Came to Indiana County with his parents in 1830. They lived in Black Lick, Armstrong, and Center Twps.
He married Elizabeth Hendrickson, and took up housekeeping on a tract of 100 acres in Center Twp, about 3 miles east of the present town of Graceton. This tract was mostly woods, which he cleared and improved. About 1866 he sold this tract for $3,000 and bought a farm near Bethel Church, a mile or so from Jacksonville (Kent P.O.). This farm has later been known as the Harrison Kaufman farm. While living on this farm, the house burned down necessitating the building of a new one. Also, later that dread disease, diphtheria, attacked the entire family of seven, three of which, Margaret, Ida, and Minta died and were buried in the Bethel Cemetery.
In 1873 he sold the farm and bought the McCrea farm of 207 acres near Rugh Station on the Indiana Branch of the PA railroad, near the present town of Josephine. On this farm he built a new house and barn to replace the old log structures.
In 1887 he moved to a house on the corner of the farm near Rugh School which he bought from James Huston, having sold this lot to Mr. Huston previously. He enlarged the house, built a small barn, and made other improvements. This is the property now owned by Robert A. Fry.
Mr. Barron and family lived here for three years, his son Emery Marshall having recently been married had charge of the farm. Soon thereafter this place was sold to A. A. Hildebrand as was 97 acres of the old homestead sold to J. M. Guthrie. They then bought the Elwood farm near Smith Station on the Indiana Branch railroad and lived there for four years. After the death of his wife Elizabeth, he moved back to the old farm near Rugh Station to live with his son Marshall. He later sold the Elwood farm to Jacob Brown.
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