Biological son of John Fogg and Ann Crompton. Adopted son of James Barlow.

Married Catherine Nightingale, 29 Jul 1849, Eccles, Chorlton, Lancashire, England

Children - James Barlow, Oswald Franklin Barlow, Amanda Barlow, Malinda Barlow, Adrianna Barlow, Henrietta Caroline "Caddie" Barlow, Willard Barlow, Joseph Ellis Barlow​, Heber F Barlow

Married Mary Jane Oliver, 11 Apr 1856, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah

Children - William Henry Barlow, Lunes May Barlow, Alice Louisa Barlow, David Henry Barlow, Albert George Barlow, Mary Adelia Barlow, Heber Franklin Barlow, Emma Jane Barlow, Herbert Arthur Barlow

History - Oswald Barlow was born July 20, 1829, at Prestage, Lancashire, England, son of James and Ann Crompton Barlow. At an early age he learned his trade, that of a mason and stonecutter, in which he became a master mechanic. This trade he followed the remainder of his life. Band music was his main pastime. He specialized as a fifer and drummer and later became an able teacher of these two instruments. In March, 1848, he married Catherine Nightingale at Manchester, England. Their first child, James, was born there on October 22, 1849.

By this time they were both members of the Latter-day Saint Church and as a result began to formulate plans to come to Zion. Oswald Barlow came to America about 1850, leaving his wife and child until he was able to send for them to join him.

He came across the plains to Utah with one of the later bands of immigrants led by President Brigham Young. Oswald drove the President's team. He also lived and worked for him all the time that he was in Salt Lake. He married his second wife, Mary Jane Oliver, in the Endowment House in 1854.

In the same year he had saved up enough money for his first wife and baby to join them. Catherine and her son, James, were on the ocean seven weeks in a sailing vessel.
Soon after they landed, Oswald met them and with a load of supplies took them to Salt Lake. He was a teamster for President Brigham Young while engaged in traveling among the Saints in the different Stakes of Zion. The same carriage the President rode in and Oswald drove is the one that is in the State Capitol Building now on exhibition.

In 1858 he moved his family to Payson, where President Brigham Young had ordered that they should move that the families would be safe if the men were called to fight Johnston's army. He returned to Salt Lake to help guard and resist the army in Echo Canyon. While at Payson, Malinda was born in the old school house. After the trouble with the army was settled the Barlow family returned to Salt Lake.

Oswald Barlow was a member of the first Martial Band in Utah under the leadership of Professor Thomas. In 1859 he opened up a dancing school as he was an expert dancer. Many were glad to receive instructions from him as the saints were very interested in recreation and Brigham Young encouraged it. A number of his daughters were among the first pupils at the school. The people loved to hear him sing as he had a splendid bass voice and was a good entertainer.

In 1861 he was called to Dixie to help settle Southern Utah. At this time they had eight children, but he loaded both families into one covered wagon which was drawn by two yokes of oxen. After a tiresome journey that lasted three weeks they arrived in St. George on December 3, 1861. They camped on the Old Camp Ground or adobe yard until the valley was cleared of brush and the streets were laid off, then Apostle Erastus Snow put Oswald to work building dwelling houses.

He soon was able to purchase a lot in the west part of town, and they lived there in a tent until he built their house. He then built their house. Oswald was a good mason and stonecutter so he worked off and on for seven years on the St. George Tabernacle. He laid the foundation and walls of the Court House and helped to build all the prominent houses in this part of the country as far north as Beaver and west as far as Pioche. He did not work on the St. George Temple as he had been instructed by Apostle Erasus Snow to build homes for the saints to live in. So his sons worked on the temple.

In 1863 he organized a martial band with nineteen members, and they held band practice every Saturday night at his home. (Alex Fullerton only member here now). He had bought the first bass drum that was beat in Utah. It was the one that was heard fifteen miles in Echo Canyon at the time Johnston's Army tried to enter the canyon in 1858. It was owned by Alonzo Russell who later settled at Rockville. The same drum is being used by the present martial band and is owned by Malinda Barlow Riding.

Oswald's families went through the hardships of pioneering and early settling, many times having nothing to eat but pig weed greens, but they prospered with the rest of the saints. He died April 27, 1876, in St. George. He was the father of eighteen children, nine by the first wife, four of them still living, nine by the second wife and two still living. He had 87 grandchildren, 219 great grandchildren, and 36 great-great grandchildren, making a total of 342 descendants.

Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, Unidentified Companies (1852), Age at Departure: 22∼
OSWALD BARLOW, son of James Barlow (born August 27, 1805) and Ann Crompton, both of Manchester, England.

Oswald was was born July 22, 1829, at Manchester and came to Utah 1852, driving a merchant team overland.

He died April 23, 1876 in Utah, burial in St. George Cemetery, St. George, Utah.

From Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah