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BARD.BARKER. At the National Democratic convention, which met at Baltimore in 1832, he received forty-six votes as candidate for the vice-presidency. He was appointed associate justice of the supreme court, March 15, 1836. by President Jackson, holding the office until his death, which occurred at Washington, D. C., Feb. 25, 1841. BARD, Samuel, physician, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., April 1, 1742; son of John Bard. His paternal grandfather was driven to America by the revocation of the edict of Nantes, and settling at Burlington, N. J., became one of the judges of the supreme court. Samuel Bard entered King's college at the age of fourteen. In 1861 he went to Europe to complete his education, and was graduated at Edinburgh in 1865 with high honors. He then practised medicine in New York city, and within a year established a medical school in connection with King's college, in which he held the chair of the theory and practice of physics. At the first commencement of Columbia college (formerly King's) in 1769, Dr. Bard delivered an address to the graduates which moved influential men to establish the New York hospital. His work was somewhat interrupted by the revolutionary war, but he soon regained his large practice, and was the family physician of General Washington during his stay in New York. In 1792 he became professor of natural philosophy in Columbia college, and in 1798 retired from active professional life, residing at Hyde Park on the Hudson, where he built an Episcopal church and contributed largely to its support. He was much interested in agriculture, being instrumental in forming the agricultural society of Dutchess county, of which he was elected president in 1806. In 1811 he was elected an honorary member of the college of physicians and surgeons in Philadelphia, and in the same year was made president of the New York college of physicians and surgeons. In 1816 Princeton college conferred upon him the degree of LL. D. The titles of his books include: "De Viribus Opii (1765); "A Compendium of the Theory and Practice of Midwifery" (1807, 5th ed., 1819),and "The Shepherd's Guide." He died in Hyde Park, N. Y., May 24, 1821. BARD, Thomas Robert, senator, was born at Chambersburg, Pa., Dec. 8, 1841; son of Robert M. Bard. He was graduated at Chambersburg academy in 1859; studied law and became transportation agent for the Cumberland Valley railroad at Hagerstown, Md. He removed to California in 1865, to take charge of the landed interests of Col. Thomas A. Scott, and became largely interested in the development of real estate and the oil industry in Ventura county. He was elected to the U. S. senate as a Republican, Feb. 8, 1900, for the term ending 1905.  BARDWELL, Willis Arthur, librarian, was born at Williamstown, Mass., Oct. 15, 1840, son of Joseph Bard well, and a descendant of Robert Bardwell. He was educated in the common schools; removed to Brooklyn, N. Y., and served as clerk in a book concern, 1859-'68. He was assistant librarian of the Mercantile library, Brooklyn, 1869-’85, acting librarian, 1885-’88, and librarian from 1888. BARKER, Albert Smith, naval officer, was born in Hanson, Mass., March 31, 1843; son of Josiah and Eliza (Cushing) Barker; grandson of Isaac Bowen and Elizabeth (Torrey) Barker and of Pickels and Rachel Cushing; and a descendant of Robert Barker, who settled in Plymouth between 1630 and 1640. He was appointed to the United States naval academy, Oct 25, 1859, and was ordered into active service in May, 1861. He served on the steam frigate Mississippi at the bombardment and passage of the forts and the capture of New Orleans, April 25, 1862; was promoted ensign, Nov. 25, 1862, and was actively engaged in the attempted capture of Port Hudson, March 14, 1863, where the Mississippi was destroyed; joined the Monongahela, took part in the siege of Port Hudson and the ensuing battles which cleared the river; was promoted lieutenant, Feb. 22, 1864; lieutenant-commander, July 25, 1866; commander, March 28, 1877; captain, May 5, 1892; and rear-admiral, Oct. 10, 1899. He ran a line of deep sea soundings around the world in 1883-'86, while in command of the Enterprise; commanded the protected cruiser Philadelphia, May, 1892, to August, 1894, and the battleship Oregon, March, 1896, to January, 1897. Upon the outbreak of the Spanish-American war he was a member of the naval war board; then commanded the protected cruiser Newark in the North Atlantic squadron, May, 1898, to August, 1898, when he was again placed in command of the Oregon and in September, 1898, was appointed to command a special service squadron for the Pacific; visited the principal ports of South America, and reached Manila in March, 1899. He took command of the Norfolk navy yard Oct, 5, 1899; was promoted rear-admiral, Oct. 10, 1899, and took command of the New York navy yard in 1900. BARKER, Fordyce, physician, was born in Wilton, Maine, May 2, 1819; son of Dr. John and Phebe (Abbot) Barker. He was graduated at Bowdoin college in 1837, and at Harvard Medical school in 1841; completed his studies in Edinburgh and Paris, and settled in practice at Norwich, Conn., in 1845. He became professor of obstetrics at Bowdoin college in 1845: of midwifery in the New York medical college in 1850; obstetrical physician in Bellevue hospital in 1852, and professor of midwifery and the diseases of women in Bellevue Medical college in 1860. He performed the first successful operation in the