Settled Here in 1857 (Barrick)
SETTLED HERE IN 1857
Source: From Pioneering to the Present, Vol. III, Published for the Linn County Historical Society by the Linn County News, Pleasanton, KS. Date unknown.
In a conversation with our old friend, Joseph Barrick, Tuesday we discovered that he arrived in Pleasanton quite a considerable length of time before we did. Uncle Joe informed us that he was born in 1847 and that he moved with his parents and settled near what is now known as Mound City just ten years later to a day, thus in September just past he celebrated a double birthday, that of the date of his birth and of his arrival in Kansas, eighty and seventy years ago.
"Uncle Joe" as he is known to all his friends, informed us that when they came to this country the people were few and far between, that he only knows of three people, now living who were in Linn county when they came. Trading Post was the only commercial center and there was just a man there who traded a few necessaries of life to the Indians for their pelts and furs. When they had to have some corn meal they were compelled to go to Balltown, Missouri or Fort Scott to have their corn ground.
Mr. Barrick is the last surviving member of a family of sixteen children, brothers and sisters.
- Pleasanton Observer
