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Born May 1, 1846 in Nauvoo, Hancock county, Illinois. Parents started for Utah when I was about six weeks old arriving in Salt Lake City in the fall of 1848. It was there that I can first remember anything. Father moved to West Bountiful in 1849 or 1850 and located here where I am at the present writing. In June 1853 Father went on a mission to England returning in the fall of 1855. During his absence Mother moved to Salt Lake City and lived on the city lot which Father owned, located across the street south east of where the City and County building now stands. This was the spot where he located on his arrival from Nauvoo, he coming in President Brigham Young's company. The block where the City and County building now stands was known as Eighth Ward Square and for years was a great place for trains of wagons to stop when they arrived in the valley. Here in this Eight Ward I went to school, sometimes held in private houses, and some times in the school house which was located near the center of the block on the north side of City and County building. My teacher, part of the time, was my aunt Martha Haven, wife of Uncle Jesse Haven. She died quite a few years ago in Salt Lake City. While in Salt Lake City I had the Mountain Fever. In the Spring of 1856 when I was about ten years old, Father moved back on to the farm at Bountiful, where in the winter time I attended the village school located across the street south and across the street east of Sister Samantha Willey's place or as she is more familiarly known as Grandma Willey. Right where the adobe school house stood in the road is right where the Salt Lake and Ogden Railroad is now or what is called the "Dummie Line." During the summer months I helped father on the farm, also in the spring of 1856 Father went to Cache Valley taking me along with him. He went to the Church Ranch or farm to get some cows from President Brigham Young to tend on shares. The Church farm was located 4 or 5 miles south and a little west of Logan. It was the only place then in Cache Valley on account of high water and snow in the canyons. We had to leave our wagons at Box Elder or Brigham City and take our blankets and ride our horses over the hill. My! didn't I think the hills were steep, not being used to that kind of work. We were gone about 3 or 4 days, returning bringing about 30 or 40 head of cows. During this trip I got the mumps and oh, how I wished my Mother had me in her arms. I was glad to get home. From 1856 to 1866 I worked on the farm and in the mountains and canyons getting out wood logs and poles to be used on the farm. I am familiar with nearly all the hills and canyons east of Bountiful. This place was known for a long time as North Canyon Ward or Stoker Ward as the Bishop was John Stoker, father of Bishop David Stoker. It also use to be my duty to look after the stock and milk the cows in connection with my brothers and sisters. In the summer of 1866 I received a call to go to Sanpete County to help to protect the people there from the Indians and was in what was called the Black Hawk Indian War. We got our call on the Fourth of July and on the sixth we started from home, 22 of us from the three Bountifuls and also boys from Centerville, Farmington and from Kaysville about 60 in all under the command of Captain Andrew Biglar of Farmington. We were gone about three months returning about the last of September. We were stationed at Pigeon Hollow, Shumway Springs and at Spring Town. We were there when the Indians stole about 500 head of stock from Manti, Bottoms. We followed them starting from Manti about 10 o'clock the next night, sixty six of us under the command of General Snow of Manti, and out about one day in the mountains we were joined by Colonel John Ivie of Mt. Pleasant with twenty two men making eighty eight in all. We followed their trail over into Castle Valley and found one steer. The conclusion was that the Indians were by this time over Green River and it would be useless to follow farther and so we returned, taking the steer back, killing it next morning for breakfast. I will say I did not see an Indian from the time I left Bountiful until my return in the spring. On March 3rd I think, I went in company with a number of boys and girls from Bountiful to Salt Lake City to the old endowment house and got our Endowments. Miss Wintle being one of the number. It was at this time that I was ordained an Elder under the hands of I.V. Long. I was ordained a Seventy, I think on April 9, 1866, although my records say it was in 1865 but that could not have been before I was ordained an Elder. On April 25, 1867 I received a Patriarchal Blessing under the hand of John Smith, son of Patriarch Hyrum Smith, brother of Joseph Smith the Prophet. On May 1, 1867 Hannah Wintle received a Patriarchal Blessing from the same John Smith. On December 7, 1867 I married Hannah Wintle, daughter of George and Elizabeth Wintle. We were married by H.C. Kimball. She was born January 29, 1846 at Yarmouth, Norfork, England and came to America in 1860 and to Utah in 1861. The first place I lived was one of my fathers rooms. It was less than 6 feet wide and 10 feet long and was so narrow that we had to saw off about 2 or 3 inches of our bedstead so it would go in across the room. Our cooking was done under the apple trees at the back of the house. The summer of 1868 I farmed my father's place in Bountiful where our first son was born November 17, 1868, Ianthus H. Barlow, Jr. and that winter I hauled goods from Evanston, Wasatch and Echo City to Salt Lake City during the time that the Railroad was being built to Ogden, the Union Pacific, I owning a pair of mules which I got off from my father. The next summer I freighted from Uinta Station at the south of the Weber Canyon to Salt Lake City and in the fall of 1869 took a job of work with my Brother in Law David W. Thompson to do the grading through my father's farm for the Utah Central Railroad Company, a branch line from Ogden to Salt Lake City, now the Oregon Short Line. It was about this time I was called to act as a Ward Teacher, I was chosen by Brother Thomas Briggs to assist him in his District. I moved down into William Thurgood's house for a short time and then moved to my brother in law's, D.W. Thompson, he getting a call to take his family down to Panaca Nevada. My brother Israel was called also. It was here on this place, just south of Joseph Argyle's house that our second son, Jesse Haven Barlow was born August 10, 1870. Our next move was up to East Bountiful as D.W. Thompson had sold the place, 5 acres, we were living on to Joseph Argyle, Jr. We went to live in Rebecca Telford's place and soon after about February 1, I, with my brother Israel and others started for Panaca, Lincoln County, Nevada, with goods for the store there. We had a very bad time owing to the open winter for it was mud, mud all the way. I went down taking a pair of mules to D.W. Thompson so I had two span. I returned in April and took another load down there and then hauled ore for a month for Peoach the great mining camp at Nevada at the time, to Bullionville, just across the Valley northwest about 2 miles from Panaca, it was in Meadow Valley. Distance from Peoach to Bullionville through the hills was about 10 or 12 miles. On my return in the summer I hauled ties down Big Cottonwood Canyon for a man named Maxwell and in the fall and early winter hauled ore from Bingham Canyon to Sandy. October 8, 1872 our third son Oscar was born then I rented my brother Israel's place, one acre and moved down there in November 1872 where we lived for four years. There our first daughter Hannah Elizabeth Barlow was born November 20, 1874. In the spring of 1876 we moved up into father's old house, he having built a new brick house and moved into it. While living here on March 27, 1877 our second daughter was born, Georgenia Barlow. During the summer of 1877 we built a log house in East Bountiful and about Christmas time we moved up there where we remained for about 17 years where the rest of our children were born. Minnierette, August 13, 1879, died March 11, 1880, Joseph Smith, born April 11, 1881, Olive Maria born June 9, 1883, Altheron born February 4, 1886, Mary May born January 5, 1891, died September 4, 1891. from the time I was appointed to act as teacher in 1868 to 1869 until this present time, 1905, I have acted as teacher in East and West Bountiful more or less all the time. In August 1879 I was elected Justice of the Peace for East Bountiful Precinct and on September 20, 1897 I received my commission from Governor Emery, Governor of Utah. Sometime along about 1867 or 1868 I was appointed a Sunday School teacher in East Bountiful, and acted as such more or less, sometimes being away from home. On April 14, 1880 I was appointed to act as Second Assistant Superintendent to Brother Charles B. Jones of East Bountiful, which position I held for 15 years or until April 28, 1895. I joined the Young Men's Association in the early spring of 1874, and hold certificate dated April 2, 1874, L.M.Grant, President and A.V. Call, secretary. The three Bountifuls were in one then. I was appointed as President to succeed L.M. Grant in Young Mens' Association, date of which I do not know and also was appointed as President the second time a few years after. In the fall of 1889 I went to Logan with my Uncle Jesse Haven and My Mother and sister Pamela Elizabeth Thompson to work in the Logan Temple for my uncle Jesse Haven, doing work for the Havens. We stayed two weeks. I was baptized for about 25 or 30 persons and went through the house for 6 persons for endowments. During my residence of 17 years in East Bountiful I was on the dance committee for a number of years also was on the old folks committee. Also had charge of the Teachers and Deacons quorums for a number of years. I was a member of Bountiful Dramatic Association and while in it took part in quite a number of plays. The association lasted for 15 or 20 years and I took quite a number of different characters. I was a member of the Utah Militia or Nauvoo Legion and was in the Calvary Company and was a Captain of ten at the time I was called to Sanpete in July 1866 on the Black Hawk War. In 1891 January 5, I received a Box B. letter, calling me to take a mission to the Southern States and on March 3, 1891 I started from Woods Cross about 3 PM going to Ogden and then over the Union Pacific to Cheyenne and then to Denver and Kansas City, three of us. Here we met seven others who came over the Denver and Rio Grande from Kansas on to St Louis. Here I hunted up George Wintle, son of George B. Wintle who was my wife's brother. From St Louis we went across the State of Illinois, touched the southwest corner of Indiana, turning south across the state of Kentucky and down into Tennessee, landing at Chattanooga, Saturday March 6, at about 12 o'clock and went to the Kennedy Hotel and Sunday noon ten of us Elders and President Spry and his clerk, Moses W. Taylor went to a Photograph gallery and got our pictures taken in a group. On Sunday night I got my appointment to go with two other Elders to Mississippi and Monday noon started going down into Alabama and at sunset we stopped at Burmingham. Here we parted with Brother John A. Pack of Camas, Utah, stopping all night at Meridian, Mississippi. The next night at 10 o'clock we stepped off the cars at Ellisville and met Elders W.H. Pettigrew and Brigham M. Johnson. We went to the Hill Hotel to stop one night. The next morning I started with Elder Pettigrew for Gitano. Elder Julias A. Farley going with Elder Johnson. I left the Mission Field, arriving home January 2, 1893 on account of the illness and death of my Mother, Elizabeth Haven Barlow. In January 1894 we moved to West Bountiful to make our home. After living here for about a year I was appointed Superintendent of the West Bountiful Sunday School and set apart to that position the same day by Joseph H. Grant, counselor to John Hess of the Davis Stake, December 22, 1895. I later labored in the Bishopric with President L.M. Grant.

Ianthus Haven Barlow died March 24, 1907 at his home in West Bountiful.