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Barrere, Nelson

congressman. He was a representative in congress from Ohio from 1851 to 1853. .

BARRET, ALEXANDER BUCHANAN, tobacco merchant, was born March 18, 1811, in Louis county, Va. He established branch stemmeries in Henderson, Louisville, Owensboro, Cloverport, and other points in Kentucky, at Clarksville, Tenn., and in Missouri, and was, in his time, without doubt, the most extensive tobacco merchant in the world, controlling annually many thousands of hogsheads in the markets of England. He died June 15, 1861, in New York.

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