Benjamin C. Barrett is one of 17 grandchildren of Harold and Elizabeth Bixby. He is a native of Great Barrington, Massachusetts where he grew up in a family sawmill business and owns and operates Berkshire Veneer Company, a wholesale/retail wood veneer business established in 1997. He is married and spends countless hours outside working on firewood, gardening and bird watching. As the “self-appointed family historian”, he is constantly in search of of historical items relating to the Bixby family.