From: Harrington, Charles Norman. Charles Norman Harrington La Crosse, Wisconsin Branch of the American Family Harrington. Chicago: Priv. print, 1934: Thomas Edson Barnum, born May 17, 1872, at Port Huron, Michigan.
He married Mary Belle Harrington on June 1, 1898, at Oak Park, Cook County, Illinois. She was the daughter of Charles Norman Harrington and Annette Susan Taylor and was born September 4, 1875, in Cleveland, Ohio. She died August 15, 1928, in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, She is buried in Lakeside Cemetery, Port Huron, Michigan. Their children were Charles Norman Barnum born June 12, 1901, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Margaret Millicent Barnum born January 2, 1903, in Milwaukee.
He is listed as a passenger in 1913 on a voyage from Southampton to New York.