Where is o.c. barber buried
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O. C. Barber
Ohio Columbus Barber (April 20, 1841 – February 4, 1920) was an American businessman, industrialist and philanthropist. He was called "America's Match King" because of his controlling interest in the Diamond Match Company, which had 85 percent of the market in 1881. He founded the city of Barberton, Ohio, in 1891 and moved his manufacturing plant there in 1894. It produced 250 million matches per day. He also founded the Akron City Hospital.
Biography
Ohio Columbus Barber (called O.C.) was born the second son of George and Eliza Barber in Middlebury, a small Ohio village later annexed by Akron. His father used to be a barrel maker from Connecticut but started producing matching when the family relocated to Akron.[1] He made matches by hand, which his sons sold door to door. O.C. first received a common school education, and at age 15 began working for his father.[2] At age 16, O.C. Barber became the company salesman. At 20, he was a partner in the business, and by 21 the general manager.[2]
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O. C. Barber Creamery
United States historic place
The O. C. Barber Creamery, built in 1909, is an historic farm building located at 365 Portsmouth Avenue on the Anna-Dean Farm in Barberton, Ohio. It was built by American businessman and industrialist Ohio Columbus Barber, the developer of both Barberton, which he envisioned as a planned industrial community, and the nearby 3,500-acre (14 km²) Anna-Dean Farm, which he envisioned as a prototype for modern agricultural enterprise. Barber was called America's Match King because of his controlling interest in the Diamond Match Company.[2]
The Creamery was used to process and bottle the milk produced on the Anna-Dean Farm and to make ice cream, all of which was sold under the Anna Dean Farm brand name. Up to 10,000 pounds of milk were processed per day.[3]
On May 22, 1973, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
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References
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The Cyclopædia of American Biography/Barber, Ohio Columbus
BARBER, Ohio Columbus, manufacturer, man of affairs, b. at Middlebury, now a part of Akron, Ohio, 20 April, 1841, son of George and Eliza (Smith) Barber. He was named after his native state and its capital and few of her sons have contributed more to her manufacturing fame. The family is of English origin and was founded in America in the seventeenth century by five brothers. A well-authenticated tradition, which is commonly accepted as a genealogical fact, is that one of his forbears, Anna Bacon, was a full cousin to Francis Bacon, the great English statesman and philosopher. His mother was of Holland stock. Her mother was born in America when Washington was President, and lived within the lifetime of every President down to President Wilson. At the time of her death, she was within eighteen months of the ripe age of 100 years. His father, George Barber, was a native of Hartford, Conn., who was brought by his parents to Onondaga County, New York, as a child. Here he grew to manhood, learning the trade of a cooper. Mo
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