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A biographical sketch of Samuel Kimbrough Barlow seems timely, following the dedication of the memorial tablets erected by the Sons and Daughters of Oregon Pioneers and the Susannah Lee Barlow and Multnomah Chapters of the Daughters of the American Revolution at Government Camp, July 27, 1925.

The family history of Samuel Kimbrough Barlow is not known further back than seven generations from the present. Many of the family claim that the blood of Bruce and Wallace is in their veins. By marriage, the descendants became Scotch-Irish and Welsh.

Samuel Barlow, the earliest known in America, came from Scotland long before the American Revolution and settled in Virgina. It is related that he became a captain in the American Revolution and from the records in the War Department, that contention can now be substantiated. The Barlows were known to be Quakers and that fact rather contradicts the claim but Samuel Barlow evidently was a heretic to his faith.

They certainly were loyal Americans and hated George the Third and his royalists as the following incidents will affirm:—Samuel Barlow's eldest son, William Henry Harris, was one day accosted by an English red-coat for