Barnes, Demas

Self-made patent medicine magnate and single term member of the Fortieth Congress, from the Second District of New York.

Life Span
to
    Full name
    Demas Barnes
    Place of Birth
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    North
    Origins
    Free State
    No. of Spouses
    2
    No. of Children
    2
    Family

    Demas Barnes (father), Mary Hyde (first wife - died 1875 - one daughter), Anna Dorinda Blaksley (second wife - one daughter)

    Occupation
    Politician
    Businessman
    Journalist
    Writer or Artist
    Relation to Slavery
    White non-slaveholder
    Political Parties
    Democratic
    Whig
    Government
    US House of Representatives
    Local government
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