ALBERT BARROWS
WILLIMANTIC: Farmer
Albert Barrows was born in Mansfield, June 27, 1825, and received a common school education. With the exception of four years in Norwich and two in this city, his life has been spent in Tolland county. He has been engaged in the meat business and farming as an avocation. Mr. Barrows was one of the original members of the Putnam Phalanx, and served fourteen years in the battalion. He has been married three times. The first and second wives, Mary J. and Angeline M. Slate, were daughters of the late Deacon N. Slate of Mansfield. The third, Fanny M. Case, was the daughter of the late Luther Case of Norwich. She died on the 4th of April of the present year. There are three children, one son and two daughters. One daughter resides in Lowell, Mass., and the other at Mansfield. Mr. Barrows is a member of the Baptist church, and is a republican in politics, having united with that political organization after the repeal of the Missouri compromise. Prior to that act he was a democrat. In 1857 he represented the town of Mansfield in the legislature. He was a member of the school board in Windham for nine years, and truant officer for the same period; assessor of the town and borough for fourteen years; and has occupied other minor offices. His father, the late Deacon Samuel Barrows, was one of the first settlers of Willimantic.
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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