| H. W. Barker | |
| Birth Name: | Henry W. Barker |
| Birth Date: | 18 March 1860 |
| Birth Place: | Leon, Monroe County, Wisconsin |
| Death Place: | Sparta, Wisconsin |
| Occupation: | Druggist, politician |
| Children: | Harold H. Barker |
| Party: | Republican |
| Office: | Member of the Wisconsin State Senate |
| Constituency: | District 31 |
| Term Start: | 1907 |
| Term End: | 1909 |
Henry W. Barker (March 18, 1860 – February 24, 1950)[1] [2] was a member of the Wisconsin State Senate.
Barker was born in Leon, Monroe County, Wisconsin,[3] and attended West Salem High School.[2] After completing high school, he "went to Minnesota 'to visit' and stayed 22 years".[2] He worked in the drug business for 15 years while living in Elbow Lake, Minnesota, and owned H. W. Barker Medical Company in Sparta, Wisconsin.[1] On May 9, 1893 he was awarded a patent for a drug mixer which he claimed could also be used to pop corn or roast coffee.[4] [5]
Barker was a member of the Senate from 1907 to 1909.[6] Previously, he had served three terms as Mayor of Elbow Lake. He was a Republican. In the Senate, he became chair of the health and sanitation committee, where he successfully pushed for passage of a "long sheet" law "requiring hotels to use sheets nine feet in length to cover the mattresses and comforters".[2]
Barker married Frances Mary McMahan in 1884; she died in 1933. Barker died at the home of one of his two daughters, in Sparta, at the age of 89.[2] Barker's son Harold H. Barker served in the Minnesota legislature.[2]
H. W. Barker died at his daughter's home in Sparta on February 24, 1950.[2]