[4] While attending Michigan, Barmore was also Director of the Athletic Association and a prize winner in long-distance running.

[2] After leaving Michigan, Barmore joined his father in the boatbuilding business at Jeffersonville, Indiana, on the opposite shore of the Ohio River from Louisville, Kentucky.

He and his father built all manner of riverboats, from small tugboats "to the large and powerful three and four-decked steamboats of modern commerce that ply the Ohio and Mississippi between Pittsburgh, St. Louis and New Orleans, carrying each its hundreds of passengers and thousands of tons of freight.

In December 1917, Barmore filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition in the United States District Court.

[2] In 1908, Barmore purchased a large Craftsman style home with Tudor influences, including a three-gabled dormer, at 1317 Alvarado Terrace.

In 1909, the house was featured on the cover of "Better City" (pictured at right) in a story about the fashionable new Alvarado Terrace neighborhood.

[5] He was buried at Rosedale Cemetery in Los Angeles and was survived by his wife, Mary G. Barmore, and his two sons.