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David Cowan Barker was born on March 21, 1831, in Bolton, England.
He was a Montreal Iron and Metal merchant.
In 1858, he married Annie Jackson Ferguson (1837–1865) and, in 1867, he remarried Mary Jane Hobson (1844–1906). He died on September 14, 1909, in Montreal, Quebec.