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Barlow, Henry C – Barnard, John Gross
Barlow, Henry C
railroad president, was born Aug. 15, 1850, in Niles, Mich. Since 1894 he has been president. of the Evansville and Terre Haute railroad.
Barlow, Stephen
business man, congressman. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1827 to 1829, and was a member of the committee on agriculture.
Barlow, Thomas Harris
inventor, was born Aug. 5, 1789, in Nicholas county, Ky. He settled in Lexington, Ky., in 1835, and in 1851 finished his first planetarium which is now in Transylvania university in that town. This ingenious and useful piece of mechanism is now in use tory, and other institutions. He died in at West Point, the Washington observa- 1865, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Barmm, Frank Herman
lawyer, was born Jan. 25, 1864, in Chicago, Ill.
He is a recognized expert on real estate values; his own holdings in the city of Chicago being very extensive and valuable.
Barnam, Curtis Field
lawyer, legislator, was born May 24, 1820, in Richmond, Ky. He graduated from the law school in 1842, and became prominent as a representative in the state legislature of Kentucky.
Barnard, Charles
journalist, author, was born Feb. 13, 1838, in Boston, Mass. He is a journalist, and the author of The Tone Masters; The Soprano; My My Ten Rod Farm; Farming by Inches; A Simple Flower Garden; The Strawberry Garden; Legilda Romanoff; Knights of To-day; Co-operation as a Business; A Dead Town, a Romance of the Old Country; Talks about the Weather; and Talks about the Soil.
Barnard, Daniel Dewey
lawyer, congressman, author, was born July 16, 1797, in Sheffield, Mass. In 1826 he was elected district attorney for Monroe county, N. Y., and in 1827 was elected representative to congress. He was again in congress from 1839 to 1845, when he was chairman of the judiciary committee.
From 1850 to 1853 he was United States minister to Prussia. He was the author of numerous reviews and speeches. He died April 24, 1861, in Albany, N. Y.
Barnard, Edmund K
educator, was born in 1863, in Sauk county, Wis. His life has been devoted to educational work; he has been county superintendent of schools, and has occupied the positions of principal and professor in various schools of Oregon and Washington.
Barnard, Edmund M
state senator, was born May 28, 1860, in Hudson, N. Y.
In 1891 he was elected a representative in the Michigan state legislature; was a member of the senate in 1893-94, and received the re-election in 1895-96, and again in 1897-98.
Barnard, James Ellery
lawyer, was born Jan. 29, 1863, in Franklin, N.
H. He graduated in 1884 from Dartmouth college; and from the Boston university law school in 1890. He has attained prominence as a successful lawyer in his native town, and in 1892 was appointed justice of the police court of his city by Gov. Smith .
He is very prominent in various Masonic bodies.
Barnard, John
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 6, 1681, in Boston, Mass.
He was a congregational minister of Boston who was among the earliest New England dissenters from Calvinism. A robust and logical thinker; and the author of Version of the Psalms; Sermons; and The Strange Adventures of Philip Ashton.
He died Jan. 24, 1770.
Barnard, John Gross
soldier, author, was born May 19, 1815, in Sheffield, Mass. He was a major-general of the United States army; and the author of Survey of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec; Phenomena of the Gyroscope; Dangers and Defences of New York; Sea Coast Defence; The Peninsular Campaign and its Antecedents; and Problems of Rotary Motion. He died May 14, 1882, in Detroit, Mich.