Home › B › Barricklow, Joseph P – Barrow, David

Barricklow, Joseph P – Barrow, David

Barricklow, Joseph P

lawyer, legislator, was born Feb. 7, 1867, in Rising Sun, Ind. He is a successful lawyer of Arcola, Ill., and served with distinction as a member of the thirty-ninth and fortieth general assemblies of the Illinois state legislature.

Barringer, Daniel L

lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 1, 1788, in Mecklenburg county, N. C. He served in the legislature of North Carolina in 1813, and from 1819-22. He was a representative in congress from North Carolina from 1826 to 1835; and was a presidential elector in 1844. He subsequently removed to Tennessee, and was elected speaker of the house of representatives of that state. He died Oct. 16, 1852.

Barringer, John E

farmer, state senator, was born July 16, 1841, in New York. He was elected to the Michigan state senate of 1887-88, and took an active part in that body. a

Barritt, Frances Fuller

poet, was born in 1826 in Rome, N. Y. When only fourteen years old she began writing for publication, and at twentytwo was favorite contributor to the Home Journal, under the agement of N. P. Willis. Azlea, tragedy, was written about this time, and published in 1851 in a volume entitled Poems of Imagination and Sentiment, by herself and her sister Metta (Mrs.

Victor), and edited by Rufus W. Griswold. mana

Barron, Elwyn Alfred

journalist, dramatist, was born in 1855, in Tennessee. He has been a Chicago journalist on the editorial staff of the Inter-Ocean since 1879, and has written The Viking, a blank-verse drama, and A Moral Crime, and other plays.

Barron, Ernest R

inventor, was born May 23, 1844, in Meadville, Pa. He has made many important inventions now used on typewriters. He superintended the construction of the first caligraph, and witnessed its success as rival of the Remington.

Barron, James

naval officer, was born in 1769 in Virginia. He is chiefly known to the present generation from his encounter when in command of the Chesapeake with the British frigate Leopard in time of peace, and the duel in which he killed Com. Decatur. He died April 21, 1851, in Norfolk, Va.

Barron, Samuel

naval officer, was born Sept. 25, 1765, in Hampton, Va. He was distinguished for gallantry in the revolutionary navy of Virginia, in which his father, his uncle and his brother also participated. He died Oct. 28, 1810, in Hampton, Va.

Barron, Samuel

naval officer, was born about 1802 in Virginia. He entered the navy as midshipman; attained the rank of lieutenant in 1827; commander in 1847; and captain in 1855.

Barron, Walter J

inventor, was born June 27, 1846, in Meadville, Pa. He invented many improvements now in use on leading typewriters, and in 1888 he invented the Universal typewriter. In 1891 he perfected the Densmore and Barron typewriters.

Barrow, Alexander

lawyer, legislator, United States senator, was born in 1801 in Nashville, Tenn. He served a number of years in the legislature of Louisiana, and was a senator in congress from Louisiana from 1841 to 1846. He died Dec. 29, 1846, in Baltimore, Md.

Barrow, David

clergyman, was born Oct. 30, 1753, in Virginia. He held various pastorates in Kentucky, and in 1803 published an able pamphlet on The Trinity. He died Nov. 14, 1819, in Kentucky.

BARROW, MRS. FRANCES ELIZA- BETH, author, was born Feb. 22, 1822, in Charleston, S. C. She was a writer of juvenile tales which have been widely circulated. Among them are The Night Cap Series; The Pop Gun Series; and The Six Mitten Books. She died in 1894.