Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typed biography of Joseph Barlow Forbes. Joseph was born in Maine in 1840 and died in Goshen, Idaho, in 1927. He served in the American Civil War (1861-1865) and migrated to Utah where he lived in American Fork for nearly the remainder of his life. He joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, married, had 27 children, and worked as a teacher.