SETH BARNES, BRISTOL
Clock-Maker
Seth Barnes was born in Norfolk, March 23, 1846, and was educated in the common schools at Torrington, where his early years were passed. His father died in 1853, and
at the age of fourteen he commenced work on a farm, where he remained for three years. He then engaged in the employ of the Seth Thomas Clock Company. On the 13th of March, 1866, when he was twenty years of age, he entered the employ of the E. Ingraham Clock Company at Bristol, where he has since remained. He has been an active and influential citizen of the place, and has been a member of the High school committee since 1887, and of the building committee, which has had the erection of the High school in charge, the structure costing $30,000. He was a member of the Bristol fire department for fifteen years, serving as assistant chief engineer during the last two years of the time. Mr. Barnes is a past master of Franklin Lodge, No. 56, F. and A. M., of Bristol, and is a prominent representative of the order. He holds the office of a trial justice of the peace. He is a republican in politics, and has been a member of the town committee for a number of years. His wife, who was Miss Margaret E. Phetzing prior to marriage, died in June, 1890, leaving two sons, Arthur S. and Fred H. Barnes. The former is a member of the junior class in Yale, while the latter is studying at Bristol. Mr. Barnes has taken an active interest in education, and has served as committee of his district for a number of terms, in addition to the place which he has held on the High school committee. He is a public-spirited citizen, and is held in high esteem in Bristol.
Source: Illustrated Popular Biography of Connecticut - 1891, Compiled and Published by J. A. Spalding, Hartford Conn., Press of the Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company, 1891
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