TLS. To Chas. J. Cohen Thanking him for report of Proceedings of unveiling of bronze equestrian statue of US Grant in Philadelphia

Guthrie: Territory of Oklahoma, 1900. 1 page. 4to. VG, some toning. 1 page. 4to. Governor C. M. Barnes is a native of New York, and was born in Livingston county in 1854. At a very early age he emigrated to Michigan with his parents where he was educated. At an early age he embarked in life for himself and at the age of 15 was a telegraph operator in full charge of an office at the then frontier station of Leavenworth, Kas. When the civil war broke out , though but 16 years old, he enlisted in the Union army and served throughout, first as private secretary to Gen. Lyons and later in the military telegraph corps and the engineer's corps.
At the close of the war he settled in Little Rock, Arkansas. In 1869 he was married to Miss Mary E. Bartlett, a daughter of Judge Liberty Bartlett, a lady of rare social and intellectual gifts. Three children who have blessed this union are - Cassius B., an ensign in the United States navy; Harry C., married and a first lieutenant in the 34th Regiment U. S. Volunteers now in the Philippines and Eliza Louise, whose presence graced the executive mansion until recently when she married Mr. C. R. Havighorst, a rising young business man of the Capital City.
Governor Barnes located in Oklahoma in 1889.