Barrett, William E
journalist, legislator, congressman, was born Dec. 29, 1850, in Melrose, Mass. He was educated at the public schools, and graduated from Dartmouth college in 1880. He began at once as assistant editor of the St. Albans Daily Messenger; joined the staff of the Boston Daily Advertiser in 1882, and was Washington correspondent the Boston Advertiser 1882-86; was recalled to Boston to become editor-in-chief, and in 1888 he became chief proprietor and manager of the Boston Daily Advertiser and the Boston Evening Record. He was a member of the Massachusetts legislature in 1887-92, and a candidate for congress in April, 1893; was elected to the fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses. he