Person:Henry Barricklow (1)

        In 1856 Farrington Barricklow and his brother Henry removed to Kansas, and laid out the town of Palmyra, now Baldwin City. 
  Henry Barricklow was one of the 13 charter members of the Baldwin City Methodist Episcopal Church and one of the founders of Baker University.

He was also county Commissioner and an active "free-stater".

  The Educational Convention met at Henry Barricklow's home on March 18, 1857, where it was agreed to accept the Palmyra Association's proposition for the new college; and of this he was one of five members, later being a member of the Board of Trustees of Baker University, 1863-67 (Vice Pres. 1863-66).
                              
                        
                               
                               
         p. 294   John Baldwin and Son Milton Come to Kansas
        
        
             SOME FOUNDERS OF BAKER UNIVERSITY
        
                          APPENDIX Vii
        
         HENRY BARRICKLOW AND HIS FAMILY
        
  Henry Barricklow, b. Fayette Co., PA, December 7, 1798; d. August 10,
1872. in 1826, he married Mary Lotton (d. 1866); both buried Baldwin 

City Cemetery, now "Pioneer." On the monument is written "Two of the

founders  of Baker University. He is said to have contributed several 

thousand dollars toward its establishment, the purchase of land, and for its endowment. In 1852, he traveled over Eastern Kansas to be ready to select land as soon as the area was open for settlement. In 1856, he

returned from Indiana with his wife and their nine children to Palmyra 

Township where he had preempted N\V 1/4 Sec 28 & SE 1/4 Sec 33

T 14 R 20 and built a cabin.'
      A member of the Orignial Palmyra Association, he was a devoutly
religious person, Leader" of the first Methodist Class in Palmyra, as he
had been in Indiana (thirty-seven years without a break in his record). 

Henry Barricklow was one of the thirteen charter members of the Baldwin

City M.E. Church. His children proudly recalled that their home was a 

shelter-no one was turned away. He did not seek office, but was one whose judgment was highly respected; e.g., he was County Commissioner and prime mover for Baker University. Too much cannot be said for his contribution to the founding of the towns of Palmyra and Baldwin City and of Baker University.