| 词条 | Kirkland C. Barker |
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| name = Kirkland Charles Barker | image = KirklandCBarkerDetroit.jpg | smallimage = | caption = | office = Mayor of Detroit | term_start = 1864 | term_end = 1865 | predecessor = William C. Duncan | successor = Merrill I. Mills | birth_date = {{birth-date|September 8, 1819}} | birth_place = Schuyler, New York | death_date = {{death-date and age|May 20, 1875|September 8, 1819}} | death_place = Grosse Ile, Michigan | constituency = | party = | alma_mater = | spouse = | profession = | religion = | signature = | footnotes = }} Kirkland Charles Barker (September 8, 1819 – May 20, 1875) was mayor of Detroit, Michigan and established the tobacco firm of KC Barker & Company. Early lifeKirkland C. Barker was born September 8, 1819 in Schuyler, New York, the son of builder and contractor Mason Barker[1] and his wife Elizabeth Ingham Barker.[2] Kirkland was educated in the local schools, at age 14 attended a manual labor school in Whitesboro, New York, where he traded his labor for an education.[2] After leaving school, he worked as a store clerk in Frankfort, New York and Utica, New York. At age 18, he moved to Cleveland, Ohio and worked in a warehouse.[1] There, his ability at business was recognized by his employers, and he was frequently put in charge of ships bringing goods from New York.[1] Leaving the warehouse, Barker took a job as a travelling salesman for a tobacco company in Logansport, Indiana, but himself lived in Detroit. Barker was determined to go into business for himself, and so established a partnership with other people in Utica, and built stores in Detroit and New York, and a factory in Jersey City, New Jersey.[1] This partnership was not successful, so Barker started anew by himself, opening KC Barker & Company (later the American Eagle Tobacco Company) in Detroit. This new firm prospered.[1] Barker married in 1847 to the daughter of Gilbert Bedell of Ann Arbor, Michigan; the couple had three children.[1] Later lifeBarker dabbled in public service, serving as an alderman of Detroit in 1863 and as mayor in 1864-1865.[1] He was also an avid sportsman, and was president of the Detroit Audubon Club.[3] His love of the outdoors led to a close friendship with George Armstrong Custer.[3] Barker was also the presiding officer of the Horse Association of America, and was elected Commodore of the Great Lakes Yacht Club.[2] During his later years, Barker took his brother, J. I. Barker, and son-in-law, Charles B. Hull, into his tobacco firm, and spent more time at his home on Grosse Ile, Michigan.[2] Barker had purchased the "Wedding Cake House," built for Samuel Lewis on East River Road.[4] On May 20, 1875, he was boating near his home, had an attack of apoplexy, and drowned.[1] References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 {{citation|title = THE HISTORY OF DETROIT AND MICHIGAN |author = Silas Farmer| year = 1889 |page = 1044|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yl06VbZ-RfwC&pg=1044#v=onepage&q&f=false}} {{s-start}}{{s-off}}{{s-bef | before=William C. Duncan}}{{s-ttl | title=Mayor of Detroit | years = 1864–1865}}{{s-aft | after=Merrill I. Mills}}{{end}}{{DetroitMayors}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Barker, Kirkland C.}}2. ^1 2 3 {{citation| title =American biographical history of eminent and self-made men: Michigan volume, Part 1|author = F. A. Barnard |publisher = Western biographical publishing co.| year = 1878 | pages = 9–10 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=U-IBAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA9#v=onepage&q&f=false}} 3. ^1 {{cite book| title = Washita memories: eyewitness views of Custer's attack on Black Kettle's village |author = Richard G. Hardorff | publisher = University of Oklahoma Press| year = 2006 |ISBN = 0-8061-3759-2 |page = 80 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KkxaJWf0dpwC&pg=PA80#v=onepage&q&f=false}} 4. ^{{citation| title = The treaty tree and memorial tablet, Grosse Ile |author = Woman's improvement association of Grosse Ile |publisher = Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford company| year = 1907 | page = 50| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=RZThAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA50#v=onepage&q&f=false}} 8 : 1819 births|1875 deaths|Detroit City Council members|Mayors of Detroit|People from Herkimer County, New York|People from Frankfort, New York|19th-century American politicians|People from Grosse Ile, Michigan |
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