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Barrett, John Erigena

journalist, state legislator, author, was born May 10, 1849, in Ireland. He entered journalism as a reporter on The Republican, of Scranton, Pa., and became its managing editor. In 1884 he began the publication, in conjunction with J. J. Jordan, of The Scranton Truth, an independent daily newspaper, which they still publish. He is one of the foremost editorial writers in America, and has attained note as a brilliant orator. In 1878 he was elected a member of the Pennsylvania state legislature as a republican, and took an important part in the deliberations of that body. He is the author of a number of stories, the most notable of which are Love and Labor, or All the Perils of the Poor; The Black List; Worse Than Death; A Knight of Labor; The Rising Tide; and the Curse of Innisfail. He is also the author of a volume of poems entitled The Fugitives and Other Poems. BARRETT, JOSEPH HARTWELL, journalist, author, was born April 15, 1824, in Ludlow, Vt. In 1845 he graduated from Middlebury college. In 1851- 52 he served as a representative in the Vermont state legislature; in 1853-54 he was secretary of the Vermont senate, and in 1861-68 was commissioner of pensions. During 1857- 61 he was editor of the Cincinnati Gazette, and editor of the.Cincinnati Chronicle and Times during 1868-79. He has contributed to reviews and other periodicals from 1846 to the present time, and his writings have been valuable acquisitions to current literature, and have, in many instances, been incorporated into standard works. He is the author of Biography of Abraham Lincoln.