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Wellesley Hills, Mass. Since 1894 he has been professor of zoology and physiology at the Michigan agricultural college; and in 1897-98 was entomologist to the Michigan agricultural experiment station. He has made valuable researches on the migration and economic relations of birds. Barrows, Walter Manning, clergyman, missionary, founder, was born April 12, 1846, in Franklin, Mich. He was filled with the missionary spirit; and wag one of the founders of the Salt Lake academy. Then for ten years he was pastor of the Second congregational church of Rockford, HI. Owing to his determination the new edifice was built; and after it had burned down was rebuilt at a cost of more than one hundred thousand dollars. He died Aug. 10, 1899, in Mackinack Island.
Barrows, Willard, civil engineer, author, in 1806 in Monson, Mass. He accomplished the government survey of the Choctaw purchase in Mississippi, finishing that work in 1835. Later he explored Cedar river, which at that time was scarcely known; and in 1837 was engaged on the first surveys of Iowa. In 1840 he surveyed the is-
was born
lands in Mississippi river between Rock Island and Quincy. He published several accounts of his experiences, including Barrows's New Map of Iowa, with Notes ; and Historical Sketch of Scott County. He died Jan. 3, 1868, in Davenport, Iowa. Barrows, William, clergyman, author, was born in 1815 in Massachusetts. He was a congregational clergyman of Massachusetts. He was the author of The Church and the Children; The Indian's Side of the Indian Question; Oregon, the Struggle for Possession; The United States of Yesterday and To-morrow; and Twelve Nights in the Hunter's Camp. He died in 1891 in Mass. Barrows, William G., lawyer, jurist. In 1863 he was an associate justice of the supreme court of Maine; and was reappointed in 1870
and
in 1877.
Edward Buttevant, naval officer, was born Oct. 20, 1849, in New York City. Barry,
In 1865 he entered the United States naval academy; in 1872 became master; and in 1900 became commander. In 1909 he attained the rank of rear admiral; and is now supervisor of naval auxiliaries. Barry, Ethelred Breeze, illustrator, artist, author, was born Feb. 26, 1870, in Portsmouth, N.H. He is an illustrator of children's books of Arlington Heights, Mass. He is the author of Little Tong's Mission; The Countess of the Tenements; Miss DePeyster's Boy; Little Dick's Christmas; and What Paul Did. Barry, F. 6., soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 15, 1845, in Woodbury, Tenn. He served in the confederate army during the civil war; and engaged subsequently in the practice of law at West Point, Miss. He was a state senator in 1875-79; and was a presidential elector in 1880. In 1885-89 he
was a representative from Mississippi to the forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses. Barry, Frederick, educator, composer, was bom in February, 1876, in Lynn, Mass. He is the composer of The Alcayde; Four Songs for Low Voices; and Spring Song. Barry, Henry W., soldier, congressman, was born in New York City. He entered the union army as a private soldier early in the war; organized the first regiment of colored troops raised in Kentucky; and commanded a brigade and for a time a division of the army. He was brevetted twice for gallant and meritorious conduct, the last brevet being major-general. He was elected a member of the state constitutional convention of Mississippi in 1867; and was elected to the state senate of Mississippi in 1868. In 186975 he was a representative from Mississippi to the forty-first, forty-second third congresses. He died June Washington, D.C.
and forty7,
1875, in
Barry, John, naval officer, was bom in 1754 in Ireland. He served through the revolutionary war as a naval officer; and at the close of the war, the United established a new navy, and Barry was named senior officer. In
he
commanded
brig
Lexington, continental
1776 the the
first
which sailed from the port of Philadelphia; and with which he made the first capture of a British war vessel accomplished by an Amerievessel
an
cruiser. He subsequently commanded the Effingham, Raleigh, the Alliance ...nd other war vessels. He died Sept. 30, 1803 in Philadelphia, Pa. Barry, John, clergyman, bishop, was bom 1799, in Ireland. He was the first to established a catholic day-school in Georgia. He was present at the council of Baltimore as theologian in 1846; and was appointed vicargeneral of the diocese of Savannah in 1853, where he volunteered to nurse the victims of the yellow fever. In 1857 he was created bishop. He died Nov. 31, 18o9, in Prance. Barry, John Daniel, journalist, author, was born Dec. 31, 1866, in Boston, Mass. He IS the author of Daughter of Thespis The Intriguers, a novel; Mademoiselle Blanche; and The Princess Margarethe, a fairy tale. Barry, John Stetson, clergyman, author, was bom March 26, 1819, in Boston, Mass. He was the author of The Stetson Genealogy; and History of Massachusetts. He died Dec. 11, 1872, in St. Louis, Mo. Barry, John Stewart, merchant, state senator, governor, was born Jan. 29, 1802, in Amherst, N.H. In 1832 he removed to Michigan; and became a merchant' at Constantine. Upon the organization of the Michigan state government he was elected a state sen-
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