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From: "Maggie Stewart" <>
Subject: ELMER CLARK BARNES
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 01:06:54 -0400

"History of Colorado", edited by Wilbur Fisk Stone, published by The S. J.
Clarke Publishing Co. (1918) Vol. II

p. 110-111



ELMER CLARK BARNES.

Elmer dark Barnes is principal of the Barnes Commercial School.
In its conduct he has met a need of the business world for thoroughly
trained people to enter upon important and responsible positions in
business circles. His course of instruction is most thorough and
comprehensive and was planned with a view to meeting modern-day needs.
His efforts have been crowned with a notable measure of success.
Professor Barnes is a native of Tallmadge, Ohio. His father, Sylvester
E. Barnes, was also born in the Buckeye state and devoted his life to
farming. He was a son of Sylvester Barnes a native of Massachusetts.
During the period of his residence in Ohio Sylvester E. Barnes was
quite prominent in community affairs, serving as school commissioner
and taking active part in promoting the moral progress of the community
through his efforts as Sunday school superintendent. He married
Rosemond Packard, a native of Hinckley, Ohio, and a representative of
one of the old New England families. She, too, has passed away. To Mr.
and Mrs. Sylvester E. Barnes were born eight children, Mary Eunice,
Ella Rosemond, Emory Burton, Arthur Leroy, Elmer dark, Hubert Treat,
Harry Eugene and Raymond Packard. The last two are business associates
of their brother, Elmer Clark.

Spending his youthful days under the parental roof, Professor
Barnes of this review began his education in the district schools and
passed through consecutive grades to his graduation from the high
school at Tallmadge with the class of 1888. He afterward attended Mount
Union College, where he won the degree of Bachelor of Commercial
Science in 1893. He took up the profession of teaching, which he
followed for four years in the public schools, and afterward became
connected with the Perkins & Herpel Business College of St. Louis,
Missouri. Subsequently he spent five years in Hartford, Connecticut, as
a teacher in the Huntsinger Business College, and in 1904 he came to
Denver, where he established a school at his present location, and
something of the marvelous growth of the undertaking is indicated in
the fact that he opened his school with but four pupils and today there
is an annual enrollment of fifteen hundred students under the care of
twenty-four teachers. The business has been organized and incorporated
under the name of the Barnes Commercial School, of which Professor E.
C. Barnes is the president, with H. E. Barnes as secretary and R. P.
Barnes as vice president. The last named is also teacher of
salesmanship and advertising. The school is splendidly equipped. There
are eight adding machines and one hundred and sixty typewriters,
together with every other facility to promote the work of pupils along
business lines. He has an expert for penmanship engrossing. The work of
the school has been thoroughly systematized and organized and each
department turns out efficient pupils, qualified to take up responsible
positions in the line of work for which they have been trained.

In 1898 Professor Barnes was united in marriage to Miss Jennie
Hart, of Brimneld, Ohio, a daughter of M. M. and C. H. Hart. Mr. and
Mrs. Barnes have one son, Emory Hart, who was born in 1909. Professor
Barnes is a Mason, belonging to Denver Lodge, No. 5, A. F. & A. M. His
religious faith is evidenced in his membership in the Plymouth
Congregational church, in which he is serving as deacon and in which he
has been Sunday school superintendent. His political support is given
to the republican party and he keeps well informed on the questions and
issues of the day but has never sought or desired office. Since 1908 he
has been a member of the Chamber of Commerce and he is interested in
all those plans and measures which work for the advancement of the
community, the extension of its trade relations and the upholding of
its civic standards. His career has been a notably successful one and
his school fills a want in the business life of the community, turning
out most capable people. Professor Barnes is a man of marked force and
great executive ability, of attractive personality, and actuated at all
times by Christian principles, his course ever measuring up to the
highest standards of manhood and of citizenship.

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