| | LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Fonds | | No.: | PR2250 | | TITLE: | Barker Family Fonds | | CREATOR: | Barker Family | | DATE RANGE: | 1917-1992 | | EXTENT: | 0.15 m of textual records. | | ADMINISTRATIVE | | HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | As a young man, Guy Barker farmed in Des Moines, Iowa. In ca. 1909, Guy Barker responded to Canadian Pacific Railroad advertisement calling for land agents. Barker traveled to Canada from Iowa, and began homesteading near Provost, Alberta at Section 5, Township 39, Range 2, West of the 4th Meridian (5-39-2-W4).
He began working his land in Alberta in 1916. He produced wheat, oats, rye, flax, and raised some farm animals for marketing and domestic use.
In 1918, Barker's family came to live on the farm, living on a property named "Rhino". Barker's family consisted of his wife, Cora Garlock Barker, and children: Lucile, Alice, Amandalee (b.1908), Roger (b. 1903), and Guy Jr. The family remained on the land until 1922.
Amandalee Barker (Knoles) graduated from Palo Alto High School in 1926. In 1930, Amandalee married George H. Knoles, and earned a Bachelor's Degree from the College of the Pacific in Stockton, California, in 1930. The Knowles moved to Palo Alto in 1935 while George finished his graduate work at Stanford and began teaching in the History Department.
Amandalee worked as a schoolteacher and administrator from 1943 to 1956. Amandalee founded the Palo Alto Co-Op and served as president of the Stanford Faculty Women's Club in 1954. She held membership with the Stanford Historical Society, the Cantor Arts Center and the Associates of the Stanford University Libraries. Amandalee passed away in 2004.
Roger G. Barker received his education at Stanford University and attained his Ph.D. in 1934. He taught at the University of Iowa, Harvard University, the University of Illinois, Clark University, and Stanford. He joined the faculty at the University of Kansas and chaired the psychology department until his retirement in 1971. Roger is regarded as the founder of environmental psychology. Roger passed away in 1990
| | SCOPE AND CONTENT: | The fonds consists of diaries dating from 1917- 1922 written by members of the Barker family. The fonds also includes a family history written by Amandalee Knowles in 1992, and an annotated transcript of the diaries written by Roger G. Barker in the 1980's. | | GENERAL NOTE: | Information for the administrative history/biographical sketch sourced from the fonds and:
Amandalee Barker Knowles: http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2004/september22/obit-knoles-922.html (Accessed July 19, 2007).
Roger G. Barker: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE3D91E30F937A2575AC0A966958260 (Accessed July 19, 2007).
Land described according to the Alberta Township System (ATS).
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