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Barboza, Mary Garnett, educator, missionwas 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. ary,

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Barbour, John S., soldier, congressman, was born Aug. 8, 1790, in Culpeper county, Va. In the war of 1813 he enlisted as a private, but was soon made aide to General Madison. He was in early life a member of the Virginia state legislature; In 1823-33 he was a representative to the eighteenth,

nineteenth, twentieth, twenty-first and the twenty-second congresses from Virginia. He was a member of the constitutional convention in 1839-30; 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. 39, 1820, in Culpeper county, Va. He was elected to the legislature of Virginia in 1847;

and served four consecutive sessions. He was president of the Orange and Alexandria railroad company in 1852-83. In 1881-87 he was a representative from Virginia to the forty-seventh, forty-eighth and forty-ninth congresses. In 1889-93 he was United States senator. He died May 14, 1892, in Washington, B.C. Barbour, Louis G., author, poet. He is the author of The End of Time.

Barbour, Lucien, educator, lawyer, congressman, was born March 4, 1811, in Canton, Conn. In 1837 he moved to Indiana and was appointed United States district attorney. He 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. In 1855-57 he was a representative from Indiana to the thirty-fourth congress. He died about 1900 in Indianapo;

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Barbour, Oliver Lorenzo, lawyer, author, was born July 12, 1811, in Cambridge, N.Y. He was reporter of the state supreme court in 1848-7S. He was 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. He died Dec. 18, 1889, in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Barbour, Philip Pendleton, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born May 35, 1783, in Orange county, Va. In 1813-30 he was a representative from Virginia to the thirteenth to twenty-first congresses. In 1831-33 he was speaker of the house. In 1825 he was appointed judge of the eastern district of Virginia; and in 1836-41 was associate judge of the supreme court of the United States. He died Feb. 25, 1841, in Washington, D.C. Barbour, Ralph Henry, author, was born Nov. 13, 1870, in Cambridge, Mass. He is a contributor of poems and short stories to magazines under the pen name of Richard Stillman Powell. He is the author of Phyllis in Bohemia;. The Halfback; and For the Honor of the School.

Barchfeld, Andrew Jackson, physician, congressman, was born on May 18, 1863 in Pittsburg, Pa. He was educated in the public schools and at the Central high school of Pittsburg, Pa.; and in 1884 graduated from the Jefl'erson medical college of Philadelphia, Pa. He has been a life-long republican; in 1884 was elected a school director; and in 1886-87 was a member of the common council of Pittsburg, Pa. He was a delegate to the republican state conventions of 1886, 1894 and 1901; and for many years was a member of the Pennsylvania republican state committee. In 1903 he was nominee of his party for congress; and in 1905-11 was a representative from Pennsylvania to the fifty-ninth, sixtieth and sixty-first congresses.

Barclay, Charles Frederick, soldier, lumber merchant, congressman, was born May 9, 1844, in Owego, N.Y. He was educated in the public schools of Pennsylvania; and at the Coudersport academy. He served during the civil war from private to captain in the one hundred and forty-ninth regiment Pennsylvania volunteers. He studied law at the university of Michigan, but subsequently engaged with an elder brother in the lumber business at Sinnamahoning, Pa. In 1892 he was a presidential elector. In 1907-11 he was a representative from Pennsylvania to the sixtieth and sixty-first congresses as a republican. Barclay, Charles' James, naval oflScer, was born Sept. 8, 1843, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1863 he graduated from the United States

naval academy; and in 1866 was promoted to master. In 1896 he became captain and in 1903 rear admiral; and is now commandant of the navy yard at Puget Sound, Wash. Barclay, David, congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. In 1855-57 he was a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirtyfourth congress. He died in Pennsylvania. Barclay, James Turner, clergyman, missionary, 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 was the author of The City of the Great King, a description of Jerusalem. He died in 1874 in Jerusalem. Barclay, Shepard, lawyer, jurist, was born 3, 1847, in St. Louis, Mo. In 1883 he was elected circuit judge in St. Louis; in 1888 was made a judge of the supreme court; and in 1897 was chosen chief justice. In 1898 he resigned and returned to the practice of law in St. Louis, Mo.

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