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Barber was born on February 2, 1798 in East Windsor, Connecticut, the son of Elijah and Mary (Warner) Barber.
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Barber was born on February 2, 1798 in East Windsor, Connecticut, the son of Elijah and Mary (Warner) Barber.
In his sixteenth year he was apprenticed to Abner Reed, a bank-note engraver of East Windsor, with whom he remained for seven years, and then opened a business of his own in New Haven, in 1823.
His work included both wood and copper-plate engraving, neither of which ever improved beyond the point of mediocrity, his chief concern being not so much the production of engravings as the preaching of the Gospel by means of pictures. When still a young man, he conceived the idea of a history prepared from the personal recollections of participants in the stirring scenes incident to the early settlement of the United States. He drove about the country in a one-horse wagon in order to carry out this historical work, and in 1827 he published his first book, Historical Scenes in the United States.
He also issued numerous other works on various sections of the country, some of which were illustrated by copper plates "Drawn & Engraved by J. W. Barber, N. Haven. " With Henry Howe of New Haven, who accompanied him on his travels, he prepared a series of historical works on New York, New Jersey, and Virginia. Our Whole Country, or the Past and Present of the United States, Historical and Descriptive (1861) is his largest work, and required five years to compile. William James Linton, the wood engraver, says that Barber engraved about 400 woodcuts, from original drawings in 1856-61, for this work.
Among his other numerous historical works may be mentioned the following: Past and Present of the United States (1828); New England Scenes (1833); Connecticut Historical Collections (1836, 1837, 1846); Elements of General History (1844); Massachusetts Historical Collections (1839, 1844); History and Antiquities of New England, New York and New Jersey (1841, 1856); History and Antiquities of New Haven (1831); and The Loyal West in the Times of the Rebellion (1865). These exhibit a most painstaking method of gathering minute details, the value of which, as historical data, has largely disappeared with the passing of the generation with which Barber was associated. Taken collectively they are very much in the nature of an immense local history of the country. Several of his emblematic books on religious subjects were combined and issued as a thick octavo volume called The Bible Looking Glass, of which 175, 000 copies were sold in the United States alone, and of which a revised and a German edition were published as late as 1898.
His books of state, national, and local history featured his vivid illustrations, said to have caught the flavor and appearance of city, town, and countryside scenes in his day. His principal works of this type were: Religious Allegories (1866); Religious Emblems (1866); The Dance of Death (1846); The Book of Similitudes (1860); and The Picture Preacher (1880).
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His religious writings are characterized by faith and enthusiasm.
Barber was married twice; first to Harriet Lines, who died in 1826, and second to Ruth Green. By his first wife he had one daughter and by his second, two sons and three daughters.
