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Barbour, John S – Barclay, Robert

Barbour, John S

congressman, was born Aug. 8, 1790, in Culpeper county, Va. He was in early life a member of the state legislature; from 1823-33 a member of congress from Virginia; member of the constitutional convention in 1829-30; and again in the state legislature in 1833- 34. He died Jan. 12, 1855, in Culpeper county, Va.

Barbour, Joseph L

lawyer, legislator. From 1877 to 1884 he was prosecuting attorney of Hartford, Conn. He is a popular member of the Connecticut state legislature and the speaker of the house.

Barbour, Lucien

educator, lawyer, congressman, was born March 4, 1811, in Canton, Conn. He was appointed, by President Polk, United States district attorney; acted a number of times as arbitrator between the state of Indiana and private corporations; and in 1852 was appointed a commissioner to prepare a code of practice for the state. He was a representative from Indiana in the thirtyfourth congress. a

Barbour, Lucius Albert

manufacturer, was born Jan. 26, 1846, in Madison, Ind. In 1882 he became identified with The Willimantic Linen Co., concern organized in 1854, which was the first to make all sizes of six-cord spool cotton from the raw material, and is now president and treasurer of that great industry.

Barbour, Oliver Lorenzo

lawyer, author, was born July 12, 1811, in Cambridge, N. Y. He was an eminent lawyer of New York state; and the author of Equity Digest; Criminal Law; The Law of Set-Off; Practice of the Court of Chancery; and Summary of the Law of Parties to Actions at Law, and many legal reports. He died Dec. 18, 1889, in Saratoga Springs, N. Y.

Barbour, Philip P

lawyer, jurist, legislator, congressman, was born May 25, 1783, in Orange county, Va. He was a member of congress from Virginia from 1814-25 and 1827-30; speaker of the house of representatives in 1821; and in 1825 was appointed judge of the eastern district of Virginia. In 1836 he was appointed associate judge of the supreme court of the United States. He died Feb. 25, 1841, in Washington city.

Barbour, Robert

manufacturer.

With his brother Thomas he established the industry in Paterson, N. J., under the name of The Barbour Flax Spinning Co., Robert being president of the company.

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Barbour, Thomas

manufacturer, was born July 9, 1832, in Ireland. 1865 The Barbour Flax Spinning Co. was established, with mills in Paterson, Thomas Barbour becoming president until 1875, when Robert was elected president and Thomas vice-president and treasurer. He died Jan. 19, 1885.

Barboza, Mary Garnet

missionary, was born Jan. 17, 1845, in Troy, N. Y.

In 1881 her father was appointed United States missionary to Liberia, and she accompanied him to Africa. She visited the United States and England and secured many friends for the two hundred native children that composed her native school.

She died Dec. 2, 1890, in Liberia, Africa.

Barclay, David

congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from his native state from 1855-57.

Barclay, James Turner

clergyman, author, was born in 1807, in Virginia. He was a leading clergyman of the Campbellite faith, and for many years a missionary in Jerusalem. He is best known as the author of The City of the Great King, a description of Jerusalem.

He died in 1874.

Barclay, Robert

physician, was born May 8, 1857, in St. Louis, Mo. In 1883 he was elected assistant aural surgeon in the New York Eye and Ear infirmary, serving until 1885, when he resigned, and removed to St. Louis, Mo. By the St. Louis Medical society he was appointed a delegate to the American Medical association in 1888 and in 1893.