Amos W. Barber

Amos Walker Barber was an American surgeon and politician who served as the second governor of Wyoming from 1890 to 1893. Born in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, on 25 July 1860, he studied literature and medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, graduated in 1883 and worked as a staff physician at the Pennsylvania Hospital. In 1885 he moved to Wyoming as surgeon in charge of the military hospital at Fort Fetterman, was promoted to Acting Surgeon in the United States Army and accompanied General George Crook's expedition to Arizona. After leaving the army he ran the hospital of the Wyoming Stock Association and from 1889 practiced privately in Cheyenne. Elected Secretary of State of Wyoming in 1890, he became Acting Governor at the age of 30 when Francis E. Warren resigned. He served again as an assistant surgeon in the Spanish-American War and died on 18 May 1915.