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Source: Atlas Map of Fulton County, Illinois, 
Andreas, Lyter, and Co., Davenport, Iowa. 1871
(page 42)

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Granville Barrere, the subject of this sketch, was born in Hillsborough, Ohio, July 11th, 1831; attended college at Marietta, Ohio; read law in the office of Nelson Barrere, and was admitted to the bar in 1854, at Chillicothe, Ohio. His father, J. M. Barrere, a native of Kentucky, was a member of the Ohio legislature for two terms; also a member of the board of public works; was in the late war, serving as an adjutant, and is postmaster of Hillsborough at present. 
    
Mr. Barrere was married April 22d, 1856, to Ellen R. Kennedy, of Stanton, Virginia. Their family consists of two sons and one daughter. Mr. B. is a member of the Fulton county bar, and is a prominent and successful lawyer. He came to Canton, where he now resides, in 1856.