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WILLIAM
H. BARNES
There are but few men who have done better
service for humanity than Wm. H. Barnes, orator, humorist, poet, and lecturer.
On his twenty-first birthday, September 22, 1885, he was initiated in Sylvan
Lodge, No. 4, I. O. O. F. For thirty-four years his voice and pen have been
always ready to aid and assist suffering humanity and build up fraternal
societies. He has been connected with the fraternal press for twenty years, and
edited several publications. His writings are chaste, pointed and entertaining;
as a speaker, brilliant, witty and eloquent. His versatility of talent is quite
remarkable, and it is his pleasure and pride to use his elocutionary, musical
and imitative powers for the benefit of the distressed, Sunday Schools, Relief
Associations, Temperance and Fraternal Societies. He is a Past Grand Master and
Past Grand Patriarch in I. O. O. F., and has served as Representative to G. L.
U. S. He is Past Grand Dictator and served as Supreme Representative, K. of H.
In the Ancient Order of United Workmen he had made a record of having more
increase of membership than any other administration. He served two terms as G.
M. W., and has been elected Supreme Representative for four sessions. Brother
Barnes is genial, and can easily adapt himself to his audience for a jovial
time, or discuss great questions of policy or law. It is undoubtedly true, as
has been said by a contemporary, He has deliver more public addresses for
charitable objects and fraternal societies than any man in the United States.
Transcribed By: Cecelia M. Setty.
Source: Illustrated Fraternal Directory Including
Educational Institutions on the Pacific Coast, Page 170, Publ. Bancroft
Co., San Francisco. Cal. 1889.
© 2012 Cecelia
M. Setty.
San Francisco County Biographies