Barret, Alexander Buchanan – Barron, John C
Barret, Alexander Buchanan
tobacco merchant, was born March 18, 1811, in Louis county, Va. He established branch stemmeries in Henderson, Louisville, Owensboro, Cloverport, and other points in Kentucky, at Clarksville, Tenn., and in Missouri, and was, in his time, without doubt, the most extensive tobacco merchant in the world, controlling annually many thousands of hogsheads in the markets of England. He died June 15, 1861, in New York.
Barret, John Henry
merchant, was born in 1835, in Henderson, Ky. His firm is known under the style of Jno. H.
Barret and Co., and they retain, both in America and in Europe, the extensive and influential prestige which was once the high and peculiar distinction of the original house in the Kentucky tobacco market.
Barrett, Benjamin Fisk
clergyman, author, was born June 24, 1808, in Dresden, Maine. He is a Swedenborgian clergyman of Philadelphia who wrote extensively in behalf of his faith. Among his many books are A Life of Swedenborg; The New View of Hell; Swedenborg and Channing; Heaven Revealed; and a Popular Presentation of Swedenborg's Disclosures about Heaven. He died in 1892.
Barrett, Edward
naval officer, was born in 1828, in Louisiana. In 1864-65 he commanded the monitor Catskill, and captured the Deer, the only blockade-runner captured by a monitor. He was in the first expedition that ascended the Yangtse-Kiang river as far as Hangkow, and took the first man-of-war through the Eads jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi. He died in March, 1880.
Barrett, Flavius J
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Oct. 22, 1835, in Giles county, Tenn. He received the rudiments of his education in the common schools, and graduated from the Baylor university of Independence, Texas. During the war he was captain of company B, fifteenth regiment, Texas cavalry, in the Confederate states army. He has attained eminence as an able lawyer of Henrietta, Texas, in which city he has been chief of police, superintendent of public schools, and held other offices of trust. He has served with distinction as a member of the Texas state legislature, and is now county judge of Clay county, Texas.
Barrett, George Hooker
actor, was born Jan. 9, 1794, in England. He made his debut as an adult as Belcaur in The West Indian at the Parke theater, New York, in 1822, and at once became one of the favorite actors of the day.
Barrett, Harrison D
spiritualist, was born April 26, 1863, in Canaan, Me.
He has been a teacher in the public schools of Minnesota, and in 1889 graduated from the Meadville Theological school, Pennsylvania, but has never been ordained. In 1891 he was co-editor of a work entitled Cassadaga, Its History and Teaching; and is the author of Life Work of Cora L. V. Richmond. In 1893 he was elected president of the National Spiritual. ist association, and in 1897 was appointed editor of The Banner and Light of Boston, Mass., the oldest spiritualist paper in existence.
Barrett, J. Richard
congressman, was born in Kentucky. Removing to Missouri he was elected a representative from that state to the thirty-sixth congress.
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.
Barrett, Lawrence
actor, was born April 4, 1838, in Paterson, N. J. His first appearance was in 1853. On the outbreak of the civil war in 1861, Mr. Barrett accepted a captaincy in the twentyeighth Massachusetts infantry and served with distinction. Afterward he acted at Philadelphia, at Washington, and then at the Winter Garden in New York, where he was engaged by Mr. Booth to play Othello to his lago. He died March 20, 1891, in New York city. of
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
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, Daniel Moreau
lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born in 1807 in Cabarras county, N. C. He commenced practicing law in 1829, and in that year was elected a member of the state legislature, in which position he continued for a number of years. He was a representative in congress from North Carolina from 1843 to 1849, when he was appointed Minister to Spain. On his return home he was elected to the state legislature. He was elected a delegate to the peace congress of 1861, and also to the Philadelphia national union convention of 1866. He died Sept. 1, 1873, in Green Brier Springs, Va.
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, John C
surgeon, capitalist, was born Nov. 2, 1837, in Woodbridge, N. J. Returning to civil life at the end of his enlistment, he became a member and surgeon of the famous seventh regiment of New York city from 1863 to 1871, and after his resignation he was appointed surgeon-general of the first division of the national guard of New York, with the rank of colonel. He is president of The Carpenter Steel works of Reading, Pa.; The Kentucky Coal, Iron and Development company; The Lyons and Campbell Ranch and Cattle company, and The Gila Farm company.