[Bourbon County] [Millersburg Precinct]
FIELDING JOSEPH BARBEE, farmer and stock raiser; P. O. Paris; proprietor
of Glen Echo farm, was born in Scott County, Sept. 4, 1832, to Nathaniel
and Catharine (Bradford) Barbee; she a daughter of Judge Fielding
Bradford, who was Judge of the Court of that county, and one of the
first settlers of the same; from Virginia; the family is also prominent
in the history of Kentucky. Nathaniel was a son of Joseph Barbee, who
came from Virginia; among the first settlers of Scott County; he was an
industrious and thorough agriculturist; he arose to a considerable degree
of prominence in the early history, and at one time represented the
county in the State Legislature. The subject of this sketch received a
liberal education, attending for a while the Western Military Institute
which was under the supervision of Thornton F. Johnson as President,
with a corps of assistants, such as Profs. Forbes, Nevius, Burchard,
Johnson, James G. Blaine and others. The children of Nathaniel were:
Charles M., engaged in farming in Missouri; Julius, engaged in farming
near Nashville, Tenn.; Emma, now deceased, became the wife of Dr. Barbee;
Geo. L., farming in Fayette County; Sophia C., married Joshua Arnold,
farming near Eminence, Henry County, Ky.; Alexander died in young
manhood of yellow fever in New Orleans while on a visit; Sidney B.,
residing in Fulton County, Mo., farming; F. J.; Wm. H., farming at
Georgetown, Ky. Our subject was married, April 25, 1861, to Miss Susan
E. Moore, daughter of Abraham and Mrs. Elizabeth (Jameson) (Allen) Moore.
Abraham Moore was a prominent man as a large land-holder, and well
known throughout the South as a trader. The fruits of the marriage was
one child, John Fielding, born Jan. 29, 1872; attending college at
Millersburg. Mr. Barbee is extensively engaged in breeding fancy stock
of all kinds; one fancy team of horses he sold to the Japanese Minister,
Kiro Ogura, to go to Japan; Cotswold sheep, descendants of imported
stock; registered Jersey cattle, and the most popular staring of
short-horns, such as the Flora, Branch of Rose of Sharon, Craggs, Young
Phyllis, Young Mary;s, Imp. Jessamine, London Duchess 15, for which he
paid $4,000; Imp. Josephine, Imp. Amelia and other popular families. Mr.
Barbee is one of the most important breeders of the "Region" his sales,
both public and private, have been very large in numbers, and have
aggregated very many thousand dollars. He was at one time one of the
Directors of the Bourbon County Agricultural Society, from 1855 to 1860
was engaged in the dry goods business in Lexington with Elliott & Co.,
and during the war was extensively engaged in shipping mules to the South.
