Barry, William T – Bartlett, a. Eugene
Barry, William T
legislator, state senator, congressman, was born Feb. 5, 1785, in Lunenburg, Va. He served in the state legislature as speaker; during the years 1810-11 was a representative in congress; was a senator in congress from Kentucky from 1814-16; and was also a member of President Jackson's cabinet, as postmaster-general. He died Aug. 30, 1835, in Liverpool, England.
Barry, William T. S
lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born Dec. 10, 1821, in Columbus, Miss. He was a member of the legislature from 1849 to 1851; was a representative in congress from Mississippi from 1853-55; was speaker of the state legislature in 1855; seceded from the Charleston convention in 1860; and was president of the Secession convention of Mississippi, and member of the Provisional congress. He entered the confederate army in 1861, and commanded the thirty-fifth Mississippi regiment from 1862 until captured at Mobile in 1865; he afterward practiced law in Columbus. He died Jan. 29, 1868, in Columbus, Miss.
Barrymore, William
actor. He came to the United States in 1826, and was stage manager of the Bowery theater.
His first appearance here as an actor was Jan. 28, 1832, at the Walnut street theater, Philadelphia, in the pantomime of Mother Goose. He died in 1847, in Boston, Mass.
Barstow, Gamaliel H
business man, state senator, congressman. He was treasurer of the state of New York from 1825-38; served three years in the assembly of New York; four years in the state senate; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1831-33. He died in April, 1865, in Nichols, N. Y.
Barstow, George Eames
manufacturer, state legislator, was born Nov. 19, 1849, in Providence, R. I. He was educated in the public schools and at Mowry and Goff's English and Classical school of Providence.
For four years he was a member of the common council; and for fourteen years was member of the school board, being president thereof during his last year of service.
During 1894-97 he was a representative in the Rhode Island legislature. He is a successful manufacturer; and founder of the town of Barstow, the county seat of Ward county, Texas. He is a member of the Rhode Island Historical society and other institutions; and his descriptive and other writings frequently appear in current literature. a
Barstow, Gideon
legislator, congressman, was born in Massachusetts. He served in both branches of the legislature of that state; and was a representative in congress from 1821 to 1823. He died March 26, 1852, in St. Augustine, Fla.
Barstow, John L
soldier, legislator, state senator, governor, was born Feb. 21, 1832, in Shelburne, Vt. He served in the union army from 1861 to 1864, rising to the rank of major; and was made brigadier-general of state troops at the time of the St. Albans raid. He was a representative in the state legislature in 1864- 65; a state senator in 1860-68; and was United States pension agent at Burlington, Vt., from 1870-78. In 1880 he was elected lieutenant-governor for the term of two years; and in 1882 was elected governor of Vermont for the term of two years.
Barstow, William A
soldier, governor, was born in 1811. He was governor of Wisconsin from 1854 to 1856. When the rebellion commenced he raised a regiment of cavalry for the war, and was appointed its colonel. He rendered important service on courts-martial at St. Louis. He died Dec. 14, 1865, in Leavenworth, Kan.
Barstow, Wilson
soldier, was born in 1830. He served from the first year of the war until its close with zeal and ability, entering the service as a lieutenant, and, passing through the successive grades, attained the brevet rank of brigadier-general in 1865. He died March 16, 1869, in New York city.
Barstow, Zedekiah Smith
educator, legislator, author, was born Oct. 4, 1790, in Canterbury, Conn. In 1818 he became pastor of a congregational church in Keene, N. H. He continued to teach the classics after his settlement at Keene, and the late Chief-Justice Chase was one of his pupils. In 1868-69 he was a member of the New Hampshire legislature, and chaplain of that body. He published many sermons, dissertations, and essays, and was a frequent contributor to religious periodicals. He died March 1, 1873, in Keene, N. H.
Barteau, Clark Russell
soldier, lawyer, was born April 7, 1835, near Cleveland, Ohio. He received his education in the Wesleyan university of Delaware, Ohio. Prior to the war he went south, and became principal of the Male academy of Hartsville, Tenn., in 1856; and two years later became the editor and owner of The Hartsville Plaindealer. During the war he was colonel of cavalry, known as Barteau's Second Tennessee, in the confederate service. He was known as a fighter; was cool but impetuous in action, and was wounded in many battles, including Shiloh, Murfreesboro, Franklin, Harrisburg, and Okolona; and on Dec. 6, 1864, was disabled for the rest of the war. In 1866 he was admitted to the bar; and in 1870 removed to Bartlett, Tenn., and practices law in Memphis.
Barth, William
capitalist, was born in 1829, in Germany. Foreseeing the great future of Denver, he at an early day bought a large amount of local real estate. He took an active part in building The South Park railroad and The Denver, Texas and Gulf railroad.
For ten years he was president of the City National bank, of Denver, Colo.
Bartholdt, Richard
journalist, congressman, was born Nov. 2, 1853, in Germany. He came to this country when a boy; received classical education; learned the printing trade and has remained a a newspaper man ever since. He was connected with several eastern papers as as reporter, legislative correspondent, and editor, and was at the time of his election to congress editor-in-chief of the St. Louis Tribune. He was elected to the board of public schools of St. Louis, and in 1891 was chosen its president. He was elected to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses and re-elected to the fiftyfifth congress as a republican, by over 16,000 majority. In the fifty-fourth congress he was chairman of the committee on immigration, and reported and passed the so-called Bartholdt-McCall bill which provided an educational test for immigrants.
Bartholomew, Edward Shef- Field
sculptor, was born in 1822, in Colchester, Conn. Among his best-known works are Blind Homer led by his Daughter; Eve; Campagna Shepherd Boy; Genius of Painting; Youth and Old Age; Evening Star; Eve Repentant; Washington and Flora; A Monument to Charles Carroll; Belisarius at the Porta Pincinia; and Ganymede. The Wadsworth gallery, Hartford, Conn., contains a large number of his works. He died May 2, 1858, in Naples, Italy.
Bartholomew, Miles Mar- Shall
inventor, was born Feb. 3, 1844, in Vienna, Ohio. He invented a typewriter and took out his first patent in 1879.
Bartholomew, Pliny Webster
lawyer, jurist, was born Aug. 4, 1840, in Cabotville, Mass. He graduated in 1864 from the Union college of Schenectady, N. Y., and has attained success as an able lawyer of Indianapolis, Ind. He has been commissioner for New York and Connecticut, in Indiana; trustee of the American college of Indianapolis; and judge of the superior court during 1892- 96.
Bartholow, Roberts
physician, author, was born Nov. 18, 1831, in Howard county, Md. He is a physician and medical professor of Philadelphia. He is the author of Materia Medica and Therapeutics; Practice of Medicine; Medical Electricity; and The Antagonism between Medicines and between Remedies and Diseases.
Bartine, Horace F
soldier, lawyer, journalist, congressman, was born March 21, 1848, in New York city. He enlisted as a private soldier during the civil war in the eighth regiment of the New Jersey volunteers, and was severely wounded in the breast at the battle of the Wilderness.
He was subsequently in nearly all of the principal engagements in which the army of the Potomac took part. In 1869 he moved to Nevada, and resided there until 1895. In 1888 he was elected to congress, and received the re-election in 1890. He is now the editor of The Bimetallist of Washington, D. C.
Bartine, John D
lawyer, jurist, was born in 1836, in Princeton, N. J.
In 1865 he moved to Somerville, N. J., where he was appointed law judge in 1885, receiving the reappointment in 1890 and again in 1895. Although he has been twelve years on the bench, such decisions of his as have been taken to higher courts have not been reversed in a single instance, which proves his wisdom and intimate knowledge of the law.
Bartlett, a. Eugene
clergyman, lecturer, author, was born Dec. 23, 1873, in Boston, Mass.
He graduated from Tufts college, and received the degree of bachelor of theology. He has been secretary of the Boston Ministers' association; is an earnest advocate of woman's suffrage; is prominent in many reform movements; and is the author of Thought Pits.