with his father in business until the latter's death. In recent years he had more and more relieved his father of the care and arduous duties incident to a business career and since his demise he has been farming the old homestead, comprising six hundred acres of rich and productive land. He also raises and feeds stock on an extensive scale, having a feed shed two hundred by two hundred feet with fifty feeding chutes. In 1904 he fed over five hundred head of cattle and he now has on hand about two hundred head of cattle and between five and six hundred head of hogs. He is the most extensive live stock shipper in this locality, buying cattle all over the county and his business has reached mammoth and profitable proportions. He also has coal sheds at Maysville and is a dealer in both soft and hard coal, which likewise adds materially to his annual income. In January, 1906, he traded a farm of one hundred and sixty acres, in Brown county, for a well improved place of three hundred and twenty acres in Butler county, Kansas, three miles from Latham.      On the 4th of November, 1902, Mr. Brown was married to Miss Josie A. Mink, who was born in Salem township, Pike county, December 1, 1882, a daughter of Jacob D. and Catherine (Chipman) Mink, the former born in Ohio in 1852 and the latter in Pike county, Illinois, in 1858. Her father is a farmer and stock-raiser in Salem township, cultivating about five hundred and twenty acres of land. He came to this state when young and in limited financial circumstances but gradually he worked his way upward and has found that success is ambition's answer. His political allegiance is given to the democracy. In his family were three sons and six daughters, as follows: Jessie, the wife of Ralph Gleckler; William H.; Ruth, the wife of William Dean; Rachel; Grover; Frank, who died in his seventh year; Eunice R.; Mamie; and Emmett.      Mr. Brown has never cared for public office but has always preferred to give his undivided attention to his business affairs and in connection with his other interests is a stockholder in the Illinois Valley Bank at Griggsville. He votes, however, with the republican party and he is a member of Pike lodge, No. 73, I. O. O. F., at Griggsville, while his wife is connected with Dove lodge of the Rebekah order. They are highly esteemed people of the community, representing worthy and prominent pioneer families and the hospitality of many of the best homes is freely accorded them. Mr. Brown is a man of excellent business ability, of keen discernment and unfaltering enterprise, and keeps in touch with the modern trend of thought and progress in relation to agricultural and commercial pursuits.                                                            _____________                                              ROBERT  YATES  BARNES        Robert Yates Barnes, vice president of the Farmers Bank of Baylis, also a representative of agricultural and stock-raising interests, is accounted one of the active business men of his village and community, and the extent and importance of his business operations have brought him a good financial return and at the same time have made him a factor in the advancement of general prosperity. He was born April 6, 1861, in Pike county, his parents being Nathan L. and Margaret (Cunningham) Barnes. The father was born March 15, 1833, in Washington county, Pennsylvania, and was a son of William and Sarah (Lawson) Barnes, of Pennsylvania, who came to Pike county, Illinois, in the fall of 1854 and located near Baylis, buying a farm of one hundred and twenty acres on section 24, New Salem township. The grandfather was extensively engaged in raising stock, making a specialty of cattle and horses. He spent his remaining years here, passing away September 4, 1884, while his wife died in 1868.      Nathan L. Barnes was educated in the common schools of Pennsylvania and remained at home until the removal of the family to Pike county, after which he entered business life here by working as a farm hand by the month. Subsequently he returned to the Keystone state, and was there married to Miss Margaret Cunningham in 1855. He brought his bride to Pike county, and she engaged in teaching school, and thus assisted him in gaining a start. He was paid a dollar and a quarter per day for his labor, and