Barbour, John S – Barker, George Frederick
Barbour, John S
congressman, was born Aug. 8, 1790, in Culpeper county, Va. He was in early life a member of the state legislature; from 1823-33 a member of congress from Virginia; member of the constitutional convention in 1829-30; and again in the state legislature in 1833- 34. He died Jan. 12, 1855, in Culpeper county, Va.
Barbour, John S
lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born Dec. 29, 1820, in Culpeper county, Va.
He began the practice of law in his native county of Culpeper; was elected to the legislature of Virginia from Culpeper county in 1847, and was re-elected, serving four consecutive sessions. He was elected president of the railroad company then called the Orange and Alexandria Railroad company in 1852, and served in that position until it was merged into what is now known as the Virginia Midland Railroad company, of which he was president till he resigned, in 1883. He was elected to the forty-seventh, forty-eighth, and forty-ninth congresses, and was elected to the United States senate, serving during 1889-95.
Barbour, Joseph L
lawyer, legislator. From 1877 to 1884 he was prosecuting attorney of Hartford, Conn. He is a popular member of the Connecticut state legislature and the speaker of the house.
Barbour, Lucien
educator, lawyer, congressman, was born March 4, 1811, in Canton, Conn. He was appointed, by President Polk, United States district attorney; acted a number of times as arbitrator between the state of Indiana and private corporations; and in 1852 was appointed a commissioner to prepare a code of practice for the state. He was a representative from Indiana in the thirtyfourth congress. a
Barbour, Lucius Albert
manufacturer, was born Jan. 26, 1846, in Madison, Ind. In 1882 he became identified with The Willimantic Linen Co., concern organized in 1854, which was the first to make all sizes of six-cord spool cotton from the raw material, and is now president and treasurer of that great industry.
Barbour, Oliver Lorenzo
lawyer, author, was born July 12, 1811, in Cambridge, N. Y. He was an eminent lawyer of New York state; and the author of Equity Digest; Criminal Law; The Law of Set-Off; Practice of the Court of Chancery; and Summary of the Law of Parties to Actions at Law, and many legal reports. He died Dec. 18, 1889, in Saratoga Springs, N. Y.
Barbour, Philip P
lawyer, jurist, legislator, congressman, was born May 25, 1783, in Orange county, Va. He was a member of congress from Virginia from 1814-25 and 1827-30; speaker of the house of representatives in 1821; and in 1825 was appointed judge of the eastern district of Virginia. In 1836 he was appointed associate judge of the supreme court of the United States. He died Feb. 25, 1841, in Washington city.
Barbour, Robert
manufacturer.
With his brother Thomas he established the industry in Paterson, N. J., under the name of The Barbour Flax Spinning Co., Robert being president of the company.
In
Barbour, Thomas
manufacturer, was born July 9, 1832, in Ireland. 1865 The Barbour Flax Spinning Co. was established, with mills in Paterson, Thomas Barbour becoming president until 1875, when Robert was elected president and Thomas vice-president and treasurer. He died Jan. 19, 1885.
Barboza, Mary Garnet
missionary, was born Jan. 17, 1845, in Troy, N. Y.
In 1881 her father was appointed United States missionary to Liberia, and she accompanied him to Africa. She visited the United States and England and secured many friends for the two hundred native children that composed her native school.
She died Dec. 2, 1890, in Liberia, Africa.
Barclay, David
congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from his native state from 1855-57.
Barclay, James Turner
clergyman, author, was born in 1807, in Virginia. He was a leading clergyman of the Campbellite faith, and for many years a missionary in Jerusalem. He is best known as the author of The City of the Great King, a description of Jerusalem.
He died in 1874.
Barclay, Robert
physician, was born May 8, 1857, in St. Louis, Mo. In 1883 he was elected assistant aural surgeon in the New York Eye and Ear infirmary, serving until 1885, when he resigned, and removed to St. Louis, Mo. By the St. Louis Medical society he was appointed a delegate to the American Medical association in 1888 and in 1893.
Barclay, Shepard
lawyer, jurist, was born Nov. 3, 1847, in St. Louis, Mo.
He received his education in the public and high schools, St. Louis university, university of Virginia and Berlin university. He began the practice of law in 1872; in 1882 was elected circuit judge in St. Louis; and in 1888 was made a judge of the supreme court.
Barclay, William Franklin
physician, was born Feb. 13, 1842, in Jacksonville, Pa. He discovered and applied gold compounds in 1893, in which he successfully combined gold with bromine, mercury, arsenic, and other metals, in the face of the decree of chemistry that such compounds were impossible.
Bard, David
congressman, was a graduate of Princeton college in 1773.
He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1795 to 1799, and again from 1803 to 1815. He died in 1815, in Virginia.
Bard, John
founder of St. Stephen's college, was born June 2, 1819, in Hyde Park, N. Y. He was the founder of St.
Stephen's college, at Annandale, N. Y., a diocesan training-school for students for the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal church, preparatory to entrance in the general theological seminary in New York city.
Bard, William
was born in October, 1777, in New York. He was a pioneer in life insurance in the United States, and for twelve years from its foundation in 1830 the president of the New York Life Insurance and Trust company. He died Oct. 17, 1853.
Barger, Samuel F
lawyer, financier, was born Oct. 19, 1832, in New York city. He is a director of the Central Railroad company; Harlem road; Lake Shore and Michigan Southern; the Chicago and Northwestern Union Telegraph company; and many other business corporations. He was one of the founders of the Manhattan club, and also of the Casino and Reading room at Newport.
Barghoorn, Charles D
lawyer, was born Jan. 1, 1860, in Holland. During 1883-87 he served as a school trustee; during 1884-86 was a justice of the peace; and since 1892 has been prosecuting attorney in Luther, Mich. Since 1885 he has been in the active practice of law, in which he has been eminently successful.
Barham, John A
educator, lawyer, congressman, was born July 17, 1844, in Missouri. He removed with his parents to California in 1849, and was educated in the common schools and at the Hesperian college, in Woodland, Cal. He taught in the public schools of California for three years; studied law and was admitted to practice in 1868, and has practiced his profession since. He was elected to the fifty-fourth and re-elected to the fiftyfifth congress.
Barhydt, Theodore Wells
railroad president, banker, capitalist, was born April 10, 1835, in Newark, N. J.
He received an academic education in the Lyceum academy of Schenectady, N.
Y. In 1855 he moved to Burlington, Iowa, where he became one of the principal clerks in the postoffice. In 1859 he entered mercantile business; and since 1870 has been president of the Merchants' National bank of Burlington, of which institution he was one of the organizers. He was one of the organizers of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railroad company, and is now president of the Burlington and North Western and of the Burlington and Western Railroad companies. He is the owner of the Delano hotel and several other fine business buildings; was instrumental in establishing the Burlington water works; and was one of the principal promoters and builders of the first street railroad in his city. He has been president of the Board of Trade, and a member of the city council, and filled various other public positions of honor.
Baright, Marie Louise
educator, elocutionist, was born Aug. 12, 1864, in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. She received her education in Cook's Collegiate institute of her native city; subsequently attending the Boston university, and the School of Expression of Boston, Mass.; and finally studied in the Chicago university.
She has been professor of Elocution and English Literature in the State Normal schools of West Chester, Pa.; and filled the same chair in the university of Oregon.
Barker, Abraham A
merchant, congressman, was born March 30, 1816, in Lovell, Maine. Mr. Barker was a delegate to the Chicago convention of 1860; and in 1864 was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirty-ninth congress.
Barker, David
lawyer, congressman, was a lawyer by profession. He was a representative in congress from New Hampshire from 1827 to 1829. He died April 1, 1834, in Rochester, N. H.
Barker, Fordyce
physician, author, was born May 2, 1819, in Wilton, Maine. He was a New York physician of prominence and a professor in the Bellevue hospital from 1860; and the author of On Sea-Sickness; and On Puerperal Diseases. He died in 1891.
Barker, George Frederick
educator, author, was born July 14, 1835, in Charlestown, Mass. He has been professor of physics in the university of Pennsylvania since 1873. He is the author of Correlation of Vital and Physical Forces; and Text Book of Elementary Chemistry.