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Barber, Francis

soldier, was born in 1751, in Princeton, N. J. In 1767 he graduated from Princeton college; and during 1769-76 he conducted an academy in Elizabethtown, N. J. He served with distinction through the revolutionary war, and attained the rank of adjutant general.

He was accidentally killed by a falling tree Feb. 11, 1783, in Newburg.

Barber, George Franklin

architect, was born July 30, 1854, in DeKalb, Ill. He is well known as an architect of Knoxville, Tenn.; and a writer on architectural subjects.

Barber, Gershom M

soldier, educator, lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 2, 1823, in Cayuga county, N. Y. He was professor in Baldwin institute four years and principal two years. He served in the civil war and rose to the rank of brigadier-general. In 1873 he was elected judge of the superior court of Cleveland; in 1875 served on the bench of the court of common pleas; and served two terms as a member of the city council of Cleveland, Ohio.

Barber, Hiram

lawyer, congressman, was born March 24, 1835, in Warren county, N. Y. He removed to Wisconsin in 1846, and was educated at the State university at Madison; studied law and was admitted to the bar. He was district attorney of Jefferson county, Wis., in 1861-62; was assistant attorney general of the state in 1865-66; and in 1866 moved to Chicago, Ill. He was elected a representative from Illinois to the forty-sixth congress.

Barber, Homer G

business man, state senator, was born in 1830, in Benson, Vt. He removed to Vermontville, Mich., and became a merchant, and in 1871 engaged in banking. In 1871-72 he was state senator from Eaton and Barry counties.

In 1861 he was appointed postmaster of Vermontville, and held that position eleven years.

Barber, Isaac

physician, surgeon, state senator, was born Sept. 4, 1854, at Forty Fort, Pa. He is a physician by profession. He studied medicine, and graduated from the university of Pennsylvania in 1879. He served as medical director of the Metropolitan Life Insurance company in New York city for one year, and located at Phillipsburg, N. J., in 1880. In 1897 he was elected a member of the New Jersey state senate, and has since continued in active practice.

Barber, Levi

congressman, was born in Litchfield county, Conn. He was a representative in congress from Ohio from 1817 to 1819, and again from 1821 to 1823.

Barber, Mary Augustine

educator, was born in 1789, in Newtown, Conn.

She entered the visitation convent of Georgetown in 1818 with her four daughters. She was a woman of superior education, and the convent and school progressed rapidly during her residence. In 1836 she founded a convent of the visitation in Kaskaskia, Ill., where she remained until 1844. She died in 1860, in Mobile, Ala.

Barber, Noyes

merchant, lawyer, congressman, was born April 28, 1781, in Groton, Conn. He was in early life a merchant, but a lawyer by profession; and was a representative in congress from his native state from 1821 to 1835.

He died Jan. 3, 1845, in Groton, Conn.

Barbour, James

state senator, governor, was born June 10, 1775, in Orange county, Va. He was speaker of the house of delegates, and governor of that state; and was a senator in congress from 1815 to 1825. He was appointed secretary of war in 1825, and minister to England in 1828. He died June 8, 1842, in Orange county, Va.

Barbour, John Humphrey

educator, clergyman, author, was born in 1854, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is an episcopal clergyman, professor of New Testament interpretation at the Berkeley Divinity school of Middletown, Conn.; and the author of Beginnings of the Historic Episcopate.