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Barnes, Noble Price, physician, surgeon, author, was born Aug. 16, 1871, in Holmes county, Ohio. In 1897-1901 he was president of the Washington medical and surgical society; in 1900 he was one of the organizers of the American therapeutics society; and was its secretary for five years. He is the author of The Evolution of Medicine Physiology of the Neuron; Anaesthesia; and Organo-therapy. Barnes, Oliver Weldon, civil engineer, railroad president, was born May 15, 1823, in Hartford county, Conn. In 1892 he became chief engineer and president of the New York connecting railroad companj'. Barnes, Phineas, civil engineer, constructor, was born on Jan. 10, 1843, in Portland, Maine. He has made a specialty of the construction of iron and steel works; and for some time has been associated with the American iron and steel works in Pittsburg, Pa. He is a member of the American Institute of mining engineers, to whose transactions he has frequently contributed papers of technical value. Barnes, Stephen Goodyear, educator, clergyman, author, poet, was born April 2, 1853,

in Perth Amboy, N.J. He graduated from Lafayette college of Pennsylvania with the degrees of A.B., Ph.D. and Litt.D.; was a, student in Andover theological seminary; and also in Hartford theological seminary. In 1873-91 he was professor of English literature in Iowa college. In 1891-1900 he was a congregational church pastor at Longmeadow, Mass.; in 1903 was college pastor and dean of the theological department in Fisk university of Tennessee. In 1903 he was a lectuier on theology at the Hartford theological seminary; and since 1903 he has been past or of the South congregational church at St. Johnsbury, Vt. He is the author of Voices of Faith and Love, a volume of poems. N.Y.

Barnes, Thurlow Weed, business man and was born June 38, 1853, in Albany, N.Y. After graduating at the high

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school in Nantucket, Mass., he took the degree of A.B. at Harvard university. His life has been devoted to business as the president of corporations, to politics and literary work. He has spent a good deal of time in China and in India; and twice made a journey around the world. In 1898 he drew, negotiated and secured from the Imperial Chinese government the concessions for the railway from the city of Canton to the city of Hankow, together with other important privileges. He has been chairman or a member J

of several political committees of the regular republican organization; and a delegate to many regular conventions of that party. He is a grandson of Thurlow Weed, and a brother of William Barnes, Jr., of Albany, the well-known political leader. He is a resident of New York City. He is interestecj. in Chinese operations, naval contracts and a new company for building airships. Barnes, Visscher Vere, lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Feb. 11, 1851, in Rensselaer, N.Y. He attended Oshkosh Normal school of

Wisconsin; and Oberlin universitj'. He took a law course at Yale university; and a postgraduate course at the Chicago law school. For several years he was county judge of Kingsbury county, S. D.; was a member of the Dakota house of representatives and served as a member of the provisional senate He was United States

of South Dakota. commissioner for Dakota; was city attorney of De Smet, S.D.; was a member of the board of education of Yankton, S.D. and attorney to the board of insanity for Brookings county, S.D. He has been chairman of

the state prohibition organization of South in 1900 was candidate for governor of Illinois on the prohibition ticket. He has been city attorney of Lake Bluff and Zion City, HI.; and general counsel for Zion and John Alexander Dowie. He is now judge of the city court of Zion, 111. He is a contributor to the periodical press. Barnes, William, educator, lawyer, jurist, was born May 36, 1824, in Pompey, N.Y. He was educated in the public schools and at

Dakota; and

Manlius academy; and in 1846 was admitted to the bar at Utica, N.Y. Prior to this he started in life as a school teacher; and in in 1843, connection his father, who was

county superintendent, he successfully conducted one of the first

normal schools or teachers' institutes in the state of New York at Baldwinsville. He was long special counsel for the bank department of the state of York; in 1860-70 was first superintendent of insurance of New York; and in 1873 was United States delegate to the international sta-

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appointed member of the permanent commission. He has been special counsel for the city of New York in special cases; is a specialist in insurance law; and one of the foremost lawyers of the state of New York at Albany.