Person:Amzi Barber (1)

Preached at the Congregational Church in Saxton's River before leaving Vermont for Ohio (per Betty Barber Lusk).

1850 US Census: Rockingham, Windham Co., Vermont A.D. Barber, 39, Cong. Clergyman, b. VT Irene, 37, b. NY A.L. Barber, 7, b. Vermont Irene S., 5, b . VT Emma E., 3, b. VT

Amzi probably waits until after the 1852 death of his mother to emigrate west. What knowledge did he have of his "step-cousin" Azubah Hicks Brownell who emigrated to Ashtabula from Hoosick or Hebron NY at the same time?

1860 US Census: Ohio Therefore sometime between 1850 and 1860, they moved to Ashtabula Co, OH. Austinberg, Ashtabula Co., OH: Barber, Amzi D., 49, Cong. Clergyman, b. VT -, Nancy I., 47, b. NY -, Amzi L., 16, student, b. VT -, Irene J., 15, b. VT -, Emma E., 13, b. VT

1870 US Census: Geneva, Ashtabula Co., OH, p. 23/170: Barber, Amzi D., 59, Cong'l Clergyman, b. VT -, Irene B., 57, keeping house, b. NY -, Emma E., 23, b. VT

1880 US Census: Ashtabula, OH: ED 24, p. 18B: Barber, A.D., head, 69, clergyman, self and parents b. VT -, Nancy I. B., 67, wife, keeping house, b. NY; parents b. Connecticut. -, Emma E., daughter, 32, at home, b. VT, fb., VT; mb NY Dick, Walter M., grandson, 7. b. OH, fb OH, mb VT Dick, Eugene G., grandson, 4, b. OH, fb OH, mb VT

1900 US Census: Russia Twp., Lorain Co., OH: enumerated with son-in-law and daughter: Barber, Amzi D., father-in-law, 89, widowed, b. Nov 1810, VT; fb VT, mb MA

He's enumerated a second time in 1900, living with his daughter, Emma, and her husband John Maitland, in Black River Twp, Lorain Co., OH.

From _A History of the city of Buffalo and Niagara Falls_ by John Devoy, 1895; p. 273: He was one of the students who left Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati, because the discussion of the slavery question had been prohibited by the faculty of that institution, and he walked across the state of Ohio to Oberlin, and entered Oberlin College, from whose theological department he graduated in 1841. Among his classmates were many men who became distinguished for their philanthropy and other qualities, among them ex-President James H. Fairchild, and Rev. Dr. M. E. Strieby of the American Missionary Association. [He] is still (1895) engaged in ministerial works in Castalia, Ohio, and although eighty-five years of age he enjoys excellent health, retaining all of his faculties except hearing, and is rendering acceptable service to the parish of which he has charge.

Wrote: Report on the condition of the colored people of Ohio;: Read before the Ohio Anti-Slavery Society at its fifth anniversary, at Massillon. May 27th, 1840 (Unknown Binding) by Amzi Doolittle Barber (Author)

1. ↑ 1880 U.S. Census
   Astabula, OH.
2. ↑ Cornish, Louis Henry, compiler, and A. Howard, editor Clark. National Register of the Society Sons of the American Revolution. (New York, NY: L. H. Cornish, 1902)
   p. 900.
3. ↑ 1900 U.S. Census - OH
   Russia Twp, Lorain Co., OH.

   Barber, Amzi D., father-in-law (of Matthew Dick), b. Nov 1810, widowed, b. Vermont; father b. Vermont, mother b. Massachusetts.

4. ↑ Townshend, VT Vital Records
   Amzi Doolittle, b. Nov. 15, 1810.