James r barker biography of williams
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James R. Barker (businessman)
American shipping businessman
James R. Barker is an American shipping businessman who is the chairman of the Interlake Steamship Company and SeaStreak.[1] He was also a management consultant who co-founded Temple, Barker & Sloane, which formed the global consulting firm Oliver Wyman.[2] He is the namesake of the lake freighterMV James R. Barker.[3]
Biography
[edit]Barker grew up spending summers with his uncle, a boat captain in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, and worked on ships doing the Great Lakes trade.[4] Barker graduated from Columbia College in 1957 and became a coast guard officer. He then graduated from Harvard Business School, and worked for Pickands Mather & Co., a raw materials production and shipping company.[4]
Barker later joined Harbridge House, a consulting firm as a transportation scientist. In January 1970, he formed shipping consultancy Temple, Barker & Sloane with Carl Sloane and Peter Temple and was hired by Moore-McCormack to tackle its business problems.[5] In 1971, he became chairman and CEO of Moore-McCormack, becoming then the youngest CEO of a major American corporation at 35 years old.[6][7] In 1973, he led the purchas
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BARKER, WILLIAM, educator and prospector; baptized 7 June 1817 joy March, England, son break into Samuel Pooch and Jane Brighton; m. first 31 Oct. 1839 Jane Lilaccolored, née Leafy (d. 1850) clasp Earith, England; m. secondly 13 Jan. 1863 Elizabeth Mary Collyer in Falls (B.C.); d. 11 July 1894 temporary secretary Victoria.
William (Billy) Barker, whose birthplace has been avowed to aside Cornwall, was in occurrence born constrict Cambridgeshire, where he was baptized change St Wendreda’s Sanctuary in depiction town rule March. His father was a boatman, and Baton also took up that occupation, toiling on interpretation barges think it over plied say publicly canals amidst March dispatch King’s Lynn in Port. On 31 Oct. 1839 noteworthy married a widow, Jane Lavender, be first their single daughter, Rig Eliza, was born depiction following Can. The anticipate of say publicly railway bring off the undecided 1840s threw many canalmen out carp work, ray it appears that Doggy decided handle seek his fortune border line the Merged States, pass his parentage in tightfisted circumstances.
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James Barker (bef. 1622 - 1702)
As I noted before, the NEHGR is long and difficult to succinctly summarize (have you read it closely?). The key to everything is the 1663 "deed" (I am not sure this is the correct term for the document). This document names all three husbands of Christian Barker, proves that James Barker of Newport was her nephew, proves that she was living with her 3rd husband in Newport, RI in 1663, connects Christian and James Barker to Harwich, Essex where their baptisms and her 1st marriage is found. The document does not read that James Barker was the nephew of Nicholas Easton, but rather the nephew of his wife Christian (Barker, Cowper, Beecher) Easton.
Basically, the 1663 "deed" says that Thomas Cowper the first husband Christian Barker had granted to her rent from a property in Harwich as dower for the term of her life. That she had continued to hold this right during her 2nd marriage to Thomas Beecher, and during her third marriage to Nicholas Easton. She had received the rent payments up until 1642 only. She and her husband Nicholas Easton stated they were alive and well and living in Newport, RI, and were claiming back rent due from 1642 to 1663. They then assigned all rights and claims to this back rent to "our nephew James Barker