Background
Barber, Orion Metcalf was born on July 13, 1857 in Jamaica, Vermont, United States. Son of Emmons D. and Lucia C. (Pierce) Barber.
Barber, Orion Metcalf was born on July 13, 1857 in Jamaica, Vermont, United States. Son of Emmons D. and Lucia C. (Pierce) Barber.
Educated Bernardston (Massachusetts) Academy, Institute of South Woodstock, and Leland and Gray Seminary, Townshend, Vermont. Bachelor of Laws, Albany (New York) Law School, 1882.
He received an Bachelor of Laws from Albany Law School in 1882 and became an attorney in Bennington. A Republican, Barber was state"s attorney for Bennington County from 1886 to 1887. He served in the Vermont House of Representatives from 1892 to 1894, and in the Vermont State Senate in 1894.
Barber served as Vermont"s State Auditor from 1898 to 1902.
From 1906 to 1908 Barber was chairman of Vermont"s Special Tax Commission. In 1909 he was chairman of the Special Commission to Prepare and Publish the Digest of Reports of the Vermont Supreme Court.
Nominated by President William Howard Taft to the United States. Court of Customs Appeals, Barber received his commission on March 30, 1910. He retired from active service on September 30, 1928.
Barber continued in senior status until his death in Bennington, Vermont on March 28, 1930.
He was buried in Bennington"s Park Lawn Cemetery. On July 2, 1898 Barber married Alice Mabel "Mab" Norton (1868-1952) in Arlington, Vermont, and they were the parents of twin daughters. Lucia Pierce Barber (August 24, 1899 - September 30, 1984) was the wife of Clarence Edward Howard (April 16, 1881 - April 4, 1975).
Mabel North. (August 24, 1899-May 13, 1991) was the wife of United States Army officer Notley Young DuHamel (1895-1970).
Member Vermont House of Representatives, 1892, Senate, 1894. Member committee appointed to revise Vermont statues, 1892-1894, and Chairman of Commission to edit public Vermont statutes. 1894; Mason.
Married Alice Norton, June 30, 1898. Children: Mab Norton and Lucia Pierce (twins), Norton.