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Barr, Berzelius L

lawyer, college president, author, was born Sept. 29, 1846, in Tremort City, Ohio. He graduated in law from the University of Michigan, and as civil engineer from the National Normal university, Ohio. For twelve years he was president of the Western Normal university, and now practices law in his native city. He served as a union soldier during the civil war in company F, second Illinois light artillery, and was in the sieges of Atlanta and Jonesboro, and Nashville, Tenn. He is the author of Outlines of Oral Grammar Teaching; and Complete Inductive Grammar.

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