From the Utica Observer Dispatch, November 13, 1959: Roy Barnum, 75, died Saturday in a local hospital after a long illness. He was born in Utica February 1, 1885, son of Amos and Diana Borman Barnum. He was educated at UFA and the Utica School of Commerce. In 1917, he married Lillian Arnold in Hoboken, NJ. For the past 20 years, he has been a bookkeeper for the Empire Waste and Metal Co. He leaves his wife and a daughter Miss Ruth Barnum, Utica.