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BARKSDALE.BARLOW. rector of St. Paul's, Duluth. and president of St. Luke's hospital in that city. His degree of D. D. was conferred by the Seabury divinity school in 1892. He was consecrated bishop Jan. 25, 1893, and assigned to the missionary jurisdiction of Western Colorado. After a little more than a year's service he was transferred to Olympia, to succeed Bishop Paddock, who died March 4, 1894. This change was effected at a meeting of the house of bishops in New York, 1894. He died at Tacoma, Wash., Feb. 21, 1901.

BARKSDALE, Williant, soldier, was born in Rutherford county, Tenn., Aug. 21, 1821. He was educated at the university of Nashville, and after a law course in Columbus, Miss, was admitted to the bar in 1839. He practised his profession and was also editor of the Columbus Democrat, and in its columns he was ardent in his advocacy of state rights. In the Mexican war he served as a non-commissioned officer in the 2d Mississippi regiment. He was a member of the state convention of 1851. In 1852 he was elected to represent his district in the 33d Congress, and was re-elected to the 34th, 35th and 36th congresses. He was a pro-slavery Democrat, and made himself conspicuous on the occasion of the assault of Preston S. Brooks on Charles Sumner by preventing the interference of bystanders. On the secession of Mississippi, he resigned his seat in Congress and entered the army as colonel of the 13th Mississippi volunteer regiment, served in Virginia, and was made a brigadier-general. He was in action under Early at Gettysburg, as commander of the 3d brigade, and was killed on the field July 2, 1863.

BARLOW, Francis Channing, soldier, was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct. 19, 1834. He received a liberal education, and was graduated at Harvard in 1855, at the head of his class. He studied law in New York city, meanwhile becoming an editorial writer for the New York Tribune. When the civil war broke out, he enlisted as a private in the 12th regiment N. Y. S. M., which was among the first to report for the defence of Washington. His regiment was mustered in for three months, by the end of which time he ranked as lieutenant. On receiving his discharge he joined the 61st N. Y. volunteer regiment as lieutenant-colonel. During the siege of Yorktown he was promoted colonel. At the battle of Fair Oaks, May 31, 1862, he so distinguished himself as to win the commission of brigadier-general, receiving his commission Sept. 19, 1862. He was severely wounded at the battle of Antietam, after his command had captured two sets of Confederate colors and three hundred prisoners. He recovered from his wound in time to take part in the battle of Chancellorsville, May 2. 1863, where he commanded a brigade in the 11th army corps.

He was wounded and taken prisoner on the field of Gettysburg, July 1, 1863, his name being among the first in the lists of the leaders reported by the Confederates as killed. Following Gettysburg came an exchange, a long waiting for recovery and participation in the campaign of the Wilderness and the movements "by the left flank "of the army of the Potomac, through Spottsylvania, North Anna, Cold Harbor, and across the James to Petersburg. At Spottsylvania General Barlow, commanding the 1st division, 2d corps, under General Hancock, stormed the Confederate works, captured three thousand prisoners, including Generals Ed. Johnson and G. H. Steuart. He was at Petersburg when the siege was raised, and at the final surrender of General Lee and his army. Soon after the close of the war he was mustered out of the United States volunteer service and took up his residence in New York. He was elected secretary of state for New York, serving from 1865 to 1868. He then served as United States marshal by appointment of General Grant until October. 1869. He was elected attorney-general of New York in 1872, and after- wards resumed the practice of law in New York city. General Barlow married Arabella Griffith. Mrs Barlow was agent for the sanitary commission in the field during the civil war, and died, from disease contracted in the performance of her self-imposed duties, July 27, 1864. A window in Memorial hall. Harvard college, is dedicated to Phillips Brooks and his classmate, Francis Channing Barlow. He died in New York city Jan. 11, 1896.

BARLOW, Joel, author, was born at Redding, Conn., March 24, 1754. He was graduated at Yale college in 1778 as class poet. During his college course he served in the patriot army during vacations and fought at White Plains, N. Y. He entered the ministry after graduating and served as chaplain in the army until the conclusion of the war, when he settled at Hartford, and was admitted to the bar in 1786. He subsequently engaged in literature, and attained notoriety upon the publication of his epic poem, "The Vision of Columbus," in 1787. He went to Europe to find customers for the Scioto land company, con- trolling 3,500,000 acres of government land in Ohio. He failed in his efforts, and became interested in politics in France as a Girondist, contributing largely to the political literature. In 1791 he went to London, where he was one of a circle of artists, wits, poets and journalists, who formed among the American colony the Constitutional society, which was intensely republican in tone, and his "Advice to the Privileged Orders," published in London, was proscribed by the government. He took refuge in France, and in 1792-'93 joined the deputation of the national