Background
He was born in 1834 in Boston, Massachusetts.
He was born in 1834 in Boston, Massachusetts.
He moved to Chicago, Illinois and in 1857 founded the manufacturing firm Barrett, Powell & Arnold, which later became South.E. Barrett Manufacturing Company. He volunteered in the First Regiment Illinois Volunteer Artillery, earning the position of Major in 1863. Barrett married Alice Doctorate. Brush in 1868 and had six children.
He worked with South.E. Barrett Manufacturing Company (later Barrett Manufacturing Company) until his death, while simultaneously acting as the head of the American Coal Products Company starting in 1903.
Barrett died in 1912.