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Barrett, Flavius lator, jurist,

J.,

was born

county, Tenn.

soldier,

lawyer, legis-

Oct. 32, 1835,

ii^

Giles

the Bayuniversity of Independence in Texas. During the civil war he was captain of company B, fifteenth

He graduated from lor

regiment Texas cavalry confederate states army. He has attained eminence as an able lawyer of Henrietta, Texas, in which city he has been chief of police and superintendent of public schools. He has served as a member of the Texas state legislature; and is now county judge

of Clay county, Texas. Barrett, George Carter, lawyer, jurist, was born July 28, 1838, in Ireland. Since 1894 he has been associate-justice of the state supreme court of New York for the first district. He died in 1906 in New York City.

Barrett, George Hooker, actor, was born Jan. 9, 1794, in England. In 1832 he made his debut as an adult as B'elcaur in the West Indian at the Parke theater of New York City; and at once became one of the favorite actors of the day. He died Sept. 5, 1860, in

New York

City.

Barrett, Clarence Tynan, soldier, was born in New Jersey. In 1862 he was a second lieutenant in the one hundred and fiftysixth regiment New York infantry; became first lieutenant in 1862; was made regimental adjutant in 1863; and in 1864 became captain and aide-de-camp of volunteers. In 1865 he was brevetted major of volunteers for faithful and meritorious services during the campaign against the city of Mobile and its defenses; and the same year was honorably mustered out. Barrett, Harrison D., spiritualist, author, was born April 36, 1863, in Canaan, Maine. He has been a teacher in the public schools of Minnesota; and in

1889 graduated from the Meadville theological school of Pennsylvania, but has never been ordained. In 1891 he was co-editor of a work entitled Cassadaga, Its History and Teaching; and is the author of Life Work of Cora L. V. Richmond. In 1893 he

was elected president of the national spiritualist association; and in 1897 was appointed editor of the Banner and Light of Boston, Mass., the oldest spirpaper in existence. Barrett, John Davenport, soldier, was born in Connecticut. In 1881 he entered the Unititualist

ed States military academy from Iowa; and in 1885 graduated and 'was made second lieutenant in the third artillery. In 1893 he attained the rank of first lieutenant; in 1900 became captain in the fifth artillery; and is now a major in the artillery corps. Barrett, J. Richard, congressman, was born in Kentucky. In 1859-61 he was a representative from Missouri to the thirty-sixth congress. He died in New York City. Barrett, Jay Amos, librarian, historian, author, was born June 25, 1865, in Nunda, N.Y. In 1888 he graduated from the university of Nebraska, from which institution he received the degree of A.M. Since 1892 he has been librarian of the Nebraska state historical society; and secretary and treasurer of the Nebraska state university Alumnee association. He is the author of Revolution of Ordinance; History and Government of Nebraska and th'e Nation. Barrett, John, journalist, diplomat, authwas born Nov. 28, 1866, in Graftoii, Vt. In 1894-98 he was United States minister to Siam; and during the Spanish- American war he went to the Philippines as a war correspondent. He was a delegate to the international conference in Mexico; has been United States minister to Argentina; and is now United States minister to Panama. He is the author of Admiral George Dewey; or,

and The Far East and Siam.

John Erigena, journalist, state author, poet, was born May 10, 1849, in Ireland. He entered journalism as a reporter on the Republican of Seranton, Pa. Barrett,

legislator,

and became its managing editor. In 1884 he began the publication of the Seranton Truth. In 1878 he was elected a member of the Pennsylvania state legislature as a republican He is the author of Love and Labor; The Black List; Worse Than Death; A Knight of Labor Rising Tide The Curse of Innisfail; and The Fugitives and Other Poems. Barrett, John P., sailor, electrician, inventor, was born in 1837 in Auburn N.Y. In 1845 he came with his parents to Chicago, 111.; and was educated in the public schools of that city. For eleven years he was a sailor; then returned to Chicago and obtained a position in the fire department. In 1861-65 he was a member of the fire department of Chicago, 111.; was then assigned to the fire alarm and telegraph department, of which



he was superintendent in 1876-94; and' also city electrician. He was the inventor of the fire signal joker, police patrol system, and introduced the first underground electric service. He installed the first municipal electric light

system for street and river

light-

In 1893 he was chief of the electricity department at the World's Columbian exposition. In 1897 he was retired on a pension as consulting electrician by the city of ing.

Chicago.