Background
Absalom Barnett was the eldest son of the noted St. Louis architect, George Ingham Barnett.
Absalom Barnett was the eldest son of the noted St. Louis architect, George Ingham Barnett.
During his early years young Barnett was a member of his father’s office until about 1870. Shortly after 1880 he left for the west, and subsequently settled in San Francisco where he became one of the city’s earlv architects.
Eldest son of the noted St. Louis architect, the late George Ingham Barnett, named for his grandfather, a Baptist preacher in Birmingham, England.
