The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1904-06-10
A Burns Candidate for Sheriff.

Among all of the good timber which
the different townships are offering for
the sheriffs Office there certainly should
be good results so far as the head of the
republican ticket is concerned when the
votes are counted next fall. For, some
time the opinion has been gaining
ground that the friends of Frank Barnes,
of Burns township, would probably sue
coed in getting him to enter the race for
sheriff, and although it has been known
for some time that he was considering
the matter, it is only within the last
few days that, after making a fairly
complete canvass of different parts of
the county, he has decided that his
friends are in earnest in their wish for
him to make the run for the nomina-
ton. AS result MIR. Barnes is from,
now on actively in the race for the
office of sheriff of Shiawassee county
J. Frank Barnes was born in Burns
township, twosmiles ssouth ana tw0
miles west of Byron, on the farm which
is his home today. His parents were
among the first of Shiawassee countys
pioneers, coming to this state in 1886,
and settling on the farm which has al
ways since been the family home. The
father, Ezra d. Barnes, was for years
well known throughout the entire
county and especially well known to
many of the older residents of this city.
Frank was the youngest of seventeen
children and inherits all of the sturdy
qualities of his pioneer parents
When he was thirteen years of age
both parents died and from that time on
he was largely his own master. He at
tended school in Byron for some years,
during one year of which time he assist
ed in the drug store of w. H. Bigelow,
now of this city, working nights and
mornings as we'll as Saturdays and
through summer vacation. He then
attended the Howell high school, one of
his sisters living in that place, as well
as other friends and acquaintance, who
wished him to come there. After two
years in the Howell high school he re-
turned to the farm, which was being
managed by two of his brothers, and
helped them on the farm during the
next three years. In the meantime he
was married, in 1882, to Miss Julia Tyt
Ter, also member of one of the Oldest
and best known families in the county.
After this he worked for two years in
Byron in the Dudley Brothers general
store and in the same store after it was
purchased by E. l.. Devereaux, now of
Owosso. Two years spent in working
in the general store of Hickey 81 Good
no, in Howell followed this, and then he
returned to the old homestead to take
up the management of the two hundred
and twenty acre farm, which has been
his occupation since that time. ft.
Mr.. Barnes friends claim for him
that he would make a most excellent
sheriff. lie is energetic, large in body
and strong, and in all ways man able
to accomplish results. He is, moreover,
a genial, pleasant mon to meet. He is
a member of the Masonic fraternity and
of the Owosso Lodge of -Ellss, as we'll as
of other fraternal bodies combining both
the fraternal and insurance features.
AS a member of the republican party he
has been an active worker. for many
years past. Although seldom asking to
be sent as delegate from his township,
his fellow republicans have nevertheless
sent him to every convention for years
past. But while working within the
party ranks for the election of republi-
can tickets he has never asked his fel-
low republicans for any Office thereto
fore, and only now enters the race for