Barker, James Nelson – Barlow, Thomas Harris
Barker, James Nelson
author, poet, was born June 17, 1784, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a Philadelphia poet and playwright, and was comptroller of the United States treasury in 1838-50.
His dramas include Marmion; The Indian Princess; Superstition; and Smiles and Tears. He died March 9, 1858, in Washington, D. C.
Barker, James William
merchant, was born Dec. 5, 1815, in White Plains, N. Y. In 1859 he established an extensive house in Pittsburg, and transacted annually a very large business. In 1854 he was the Knownothing candidate for mayor of New York city, but was defeated in a closely contested election by Fernando Wood. He was very active in the founding of the Order of the Star Spangled Banner, a secret organization, having for its object the prevention of the political ascendancy of the foreign-born inhabitants of the United States, and was its principal officer in 1853. From 1867 till his death he was president of the Eclectic Life Insurance company, New York. He died June 26, 1869, in Rahway, N. J.
Barker, Joseph
clergyman, congressman. He commenced his classical studies at Harvard university, and graduated at Yale college in 1771. He was an ordained preacher of the gospel; and was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1805 to 1809. He died in 1815.
Barker, Josiah
shipbuilder, was born Nov. 16, 1763, in Marshfield, Mass.
He was United States naval constructor about 1810, and built the Virginia in 1818, the Warren in 1826, the Cumberland in 1842, and other men-of-war. He also rebuilt the Constitution in 1834, and furnished the plans for the Portsmouth. He died Sept. 23, 1843, in Charlestown, Mass.
Barker, Lorenzo Abel
soldier, journalist, was born Aug. 16, 1839, in Naples, N. Y. He is the editor and owner of The Clarion of Reed City, Mich. At an early age he learned the printing business; and in 1861 enlisted in company E, thirteenth regiment Missouri volunteers; which afterward was changed to company D, sixty-sixth company Illinois Western Sharpshooters. He fought gallantly during the war and was promoted sergeant. In 1884 he was a presidential elector in the Blaine and Logan campaign; and in 1896 was again a presidential elector for William McKinley. He served as postmaster of Reed City during President Harrison's administration. He is a prominent member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and various other fraternal orders.
Barker, Reuben H. W
farmer, soldier, state senator, was born Aug. 31, 1846, in Iredell county, N. C. He was educated at Rutherford college; and was for many years engaged in merchandising, but later became a successful farmer and and stockraiser.
He served two years in the confederate army as a member of the twenty-ninth regiment North Carolina troops. He is the son of the Rev. J. N. Barker, who for nearly fifty years was a traveling methodist clergyman. He has taken an active part in public affairs; has been a justice of the peace; and in 1896 was elected a member of the North Carolina state senate.
Barker, Samuel Alphonso
lawyer, was born July 26, 1833, in Kennebec, Maine.
In his youth he taught school, and in 1857 was admitted to the bar in the supreme court at Augusta, Maine. For ten years he practiced law in his native state, and in 1867 moved to California.
He settled in San Jose, where he is known as one of the foremost lawyers of his adopted state.
Barker, Wharton
financier, was born May 1, 1846, in Philadelphia. He was one of the four who organized in Pennsylvania the republican revolution, of 1881. He was the founder of the Investment company of Philadelphia, and also of the Finance company of Philadelphia.
Barker, William Morris
missionary bishop of Olympia, Wash., was born May 12, 1854, in Towanda, Pa. For two years he was an assistant master in the Bishop Scott grammar school, of Portland, Ore. Until his consecration he was in charge of St. Paul's church, of Duluth; and president of St. Luke's hospital in that city.
Barkley, David Wright
journalist, legislator, was born May 21, 1842, in , legislator, was born May 21, 1842, in Fairfield, Ill. He has been president of the board of trustees of Hayward Collegiate institute of Fairfield, Ill., and a member of the Illinois legislature. He is the editor and owner of The Enterprise of Rocky Ford, Colo.
Barkley, Henry L
educator, clergyman, legislator, was born March 19, , legislator, was born March 19, 1858, in Adams county, Ind. He received a thorough education in the public schools of Ohio , and graduated from the high school of Bryan. He has been a successful educator, clergyman, and is now bishop of the Pacific coast district of the United Brethren church at Woodburn, Ore. He served with distinction for two terms as a representative in the Oregon legislature.
Barkley, James
soldier, was born in Kentucky. He enlisted as private in the one hundred and fourteenth Illinois infantry in 1862, and made a capital record as a brave soldier. He started in as a private and worked his way to brigadiercommander. He is senior brigadiergeneral in the service; was for a time captain of battery B; and was elected colonel of the fifth regiment in 1877, holding that position until 1891.
Barksdale, Ethelbert
journalist, congressman, was born in Rutherford , congressman, was born in Rutherford county , Tenn. He received a classical education; removed to Mississippi at an early age, and adopted the profession of journalism. He was a representative in the confederate congress for four years; was a presidential elector, and president of the Mississippi college of electors, in 1876.
He was elected a representative from Mississippi to the forty-eighth and forty-ninth congresses.
Barksdale, William
lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 21, 1821, in Rutherford county, Tenn. He pursued a partial course of studies at the Nashville university; was a lawyer by profession; held a commission in the staff of the second Mississippi regiment, in the Mexican war, in 1847. He was a member of the Mississippi convention called in 1851 to discuss the compromise measures of 1850; and was elected representative from Mississippi in the thirty-third, thirtyfourth, thirty-fifth, and thirty-sixth congresses. He was killed July 2, 1863, at the battle of Gettysburg.
Barlow, Bradley
merchant, banker, congressman, was born May 12, 1814, in Fairfield, Vt. He was engaged in agri- 1858; removed to St. Albans, Vt., and encultural and mercantile pursuits until gaged in banking and other pursuits. He served six terms as a representative in the state legislature, and two terms as state senator; was twice a member of state constitutional conventions; and was county treasurer for several years. He was elected a representative from Vermont to the forty-sixth congress.
Barlow, Charles Averill
merchant, farmer, congressman, was born March 17, 1858, in Cleveland, Ohio. He removed to San Luis Obispo county, Cal., where he acquired land and engaged in wheat farming. He was state lecturer of the Farmers' alliance one term, and was elected to the state assembly from San Luis Obispo county in 1893 on the straight people's party ticket. He introduced a number of important bills in the legislature and conducted them to a successful passage. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress, and took an important part in the deliberations of that body.
Barlow, Francis Channing
soldier, public official, was born Oct. 19, 1834, in Brooklyn, N. Y. In Grant's campaign he captured the whole division of Gen.
Johnston, and in the final struggle and pursuit of Lee's routed army he rendered essential service. He was secretary of state of New York.
Barlow, Henry C
railroad president, was born Aug. 15, 1850, in Niles, Mich. Since 1894 he has been president. of the Evansville and Terre Haute railroad.
Barlow, Joel
patriot, poet, was born March 25, 1755, in Reading, Conn.
As an author he belonged to the first class. of his time in America, and was one of the celebrated Hartford Wits. His Vision of Columbus, a poem in imitation of Milton, obtained great popularity, and Hasty Pudding, humorous poem dedicated to Martha Washington, was much admired. His most elaborate work, a Columbiad, an epic poem, is considered by critics to be a failure. He died Dec. 24, 1812, near Cracow, in Poland, while serving as foreign ambassador.
Barlow, Samuel Latham Mit- Chell
lawyer, author, was born June 5, 1826, in Granville, Mass. He was educated in New York city, where he practiced law for forty years. He gave much time to the collection of rare and curious books. His library of Americana was among the largest in the country. In connection with Henry Harrisse he edited Notes on Columbus, an invaluable work for the biography and bibliography of the discoverer of the new world. He died July 10, 1890, in Glen Cove, N. Y.
Barlow, Stephen
business man, congressman. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1827 to 1829, and was a member of the committee on agriculture.
Barlow, Thomas Harris
inventor, was born Aug. 5, 1789, in Nicholas county, born Aug. 5, 1789, in Nicholas county, Ky. He settled in Lexington, Ky., in 1835, and in 1851 finished his first planetarium which is now in Transylvania university in that town. This ingenious and useful piece of mechanism is now in use tory, and other institutions. He died in at West Point, the Washington observa- 1865, in Cincinnati, Ohio.