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Barney, Everett H., manufacturer, invenwas born Dec. 7, 1835, in Framingham, Mass. The Barney and Bates skates have a world-wide reputation. Barney, George Deverell, physician, surgeon, was born on Oct. 19, 1865, in Darien, Conn. He discovered a new treatment for consumption. Since 1895 he has practiced medicine in Brooklyn, N.Y. Barney, John, congressman, author. In 1835-29 he was a representative from Maryland to the nineteenth and twentieth congresses. He left behind him an unfinished record of Personal Recollections of Men and tor,

Things. He died Jan. 26, 1856, in Washington, D.C. Barney, Joshua, naval officer, was born July 6, 1759 in Baltimore, Md. He entered the naval service of the revolution in 1775; was active during the whole war; and he became commodore. In 1782 he sailed to France with dispatches to Dr. Franklin and returned with the information that preliminaries of peace had been signed and brought a, large sum of money lent by the

government. French After the war he engaged in commerce and traveled in the west. In the war of 1812 he was engaged in privateering. He bore the American flag to the French national convention in 1796; and entered the French service. He returned to America in 1800 and took part in the war

of 1813.

He

died Dec.

1,

1818, in Pittsburg.

Barney, Lewis Tappan, soldier, was born in New York. In 1863 he became first lieutenant in the sixty-eighth regiment New York volunteer infantry; and in 1865 was brevetted brigadier-general and major-general of volunteers.

Barney, Samuel Stebbins, educator, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Jan. 31, 1846, in Hartford, Wis. He was educated in

the public schools and at Lombard university of Galesburg, 111.; and taught in the high school of Hartford for four years. From 1873 he practiced his profession at West Bend, Wis. He filled the office of superintendent of schools of Washington county in 1876-1880. In 1895-1903 he was a representative from Wisconsin to the fifty-fourth, fifty-fifth, fifty-sixth and fifty-seventh congresses; and declined a re-nomination. Since 1905 he has been an associate judge of the United States court of claims at Washington, D.C. Barnhart, Arthur Middleton, business president, founder, was born Feb. 17, 1844, in Hartfield, N.Y. In 1865-73 he established several newspapers in Iowa; and in 1869 established a type foundry in -Chicago, HI.,

which is still conducted under the name of Barnhart brothers and Spindler, of which he is president. Barnhart, H. A., congressman. In 1809-11 he was a representative from Indiana to the sixty-first congress.

Barnhill,

was born Ohio.

He

James Uriah, surgeon, author,

22, 1855, near Wattsville, received a thorough education ; and

Oct.

1883 he graduated with the degree of M. D. from Columbus medical college of Ohio; and has also received in

the

degrees

of

A.M.'

and Ph.D. Since 1883 he has practiced surgery in Columbus, Ohio is United States examining surgeon for pensions; and a member of the American association, medical the Ohio state and central Ohio medical societies and the Columbus academy of medicine. He is professor of surgery at the Columbus medical college at Columbus, Ohio; and has taught in the medical college of his city for over a quarter of a century. He was editor of the Columbus medical Journal in 18991908. He is the author of Outlines of the Principles of Surgery; History of the Public Schools of Columbus; Eminent Surgeons of Four Centuries; and other works. Barnitz, Charles A., lawyer, congressman^ was born on Sept. 11, 1780, in York, Pa. In 1853-35 he was a representative to the twenty-third congress from Pennsylvania. He died in Jan. 8, 1850, in York, Pa. Barnes, William, clergyman, theologian, was born in 1795, in Ireland. His ministry for the first eight years was in the bounds of the Baltimore conference; then he passed to the Pittsburg conference; whence he was transferred to the Philadelphia conference. He died Nov. 25, 1865, in Philadelphia, Pa. Barnum, Charlotte Cynthia, educator, mathematician; author, was born May 17, 1860, in Phillipston, Mass. In 1881 she graduated

from Vassar college; and in 1895 graduated in mathematics with the

degree

of

Ph.D.

from Yale university. In 1881-96 she taught in the public schools, at Smith college and in Carleton college. In

1886-90 and 1897 she

was assistant computer

on Webster's In-

ternational Dictionary; in 1883-85 was computer at Yale observatory; and since 1901 has been computer for the coast and geodetic survey. She is a fellow of the American association for the advancement of science.