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BARNES.BARNES. BARNES, Albert, clergyman, was born in Rome, N. Y., Dec. 1, 1798. The greater part of his boyhood was passed at work in a tannery, and though able to secure but limited school- ing, his thoughtful nature led him to read much. At the age of seventeen he left his father's em- ploy to begin the study of law. After attending the Fairfield, Conn., academy, earning his board and tuition by means of teaching a district school, he prepared to enter Hamilton college, from which he was graduated in 1820. Having abandoned his purpose of becoming a lawyer, he entered Princeton, N. J., theological seminary in April, 1834; he was licensed to preach, and in February, 1825, was ordained and installed at the First Presbyterian church in Morristown, N. J. During his five years' pastorate of that church his parishioners became devotedly at- tached to him. In 1830 he resigned to take charge of the First Presbyterian church in Philadelphia, and he was installed in his new pastorate June 25, 1830. On the publication of his ' ' Notes on the Epistle to the Romans " he was tried for heresy before the Presbytery and acquitted, and he thereupon changed the phraseology of the sen- tences in the work that called forth the charge. "When the case was brought before the synod he was condemned, and was forbidden to preach for six months At the end of this time an appeal was made to the general assembly, and he was acquitted. His "defence"' was published in New York, and his trial as reported, in Phila- delphia. This charge and trial was the occasion of the organization of the new-school Presby- terians. Mr. Barnes was a man of eminent ability as a preacher, of clear mind and beautiful character. He was loved by his people, toward whom he was sympathetic and tender. He was a conscientious and interested student, reading the scriptures in the original, and studying phil- osophy, history and the natural sciences. He wrote "Scriptural Views of Slavery " (1846); "The Way of Salvation" (1863); "Manual of Prayers " ; " The Atonement " ; " Claims of Episcopacy " ; " Church Manual " ; " Practical Sermons for Vacant Congregations and Families" ; " Closest Companion " (1854) ; " How shall Man be Just with Godf (1855); "Miscellaneous Essays and Reviews" (1855); "The Church and Slavery" (1856); ""Way of Salvation Illus- trated" (1856); " Inquiries and Suggestions in regard to the Foundation of Faith in the Word of God"; "Life at Three-score" (1858); "The Atonement"; "Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity in the Nineteenth Century " (1868), His name in Class G, Preachers and Theologians, received three votes for a place in the Hall of Fame for Great Americans. New York University, Oct., 1900. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 24, 1870.

BARNES, Alfred Smith, publisher, was born at New Haven, Conn., Jan. 28, 1817, son of Eli and Susan (Morris) Barnes, descended from the original settlers of Fair Haven and New Haven, Conn. The son was brought up to work on a farm in the summer and attend school dur- ing the winter. When about sixteen years of age he ob- tained employment in the book store of Daniel F. Robinson. He removed with the firm of D. F. Robin- son & Co. to New York city in 1835 and in 1838, when he arrived at the age of twenty-one, he entered into part- nership with Prof. Charles Davies, the well-known mathe- matician. In 1838 they removed to Hartford, and founded the house of A. S. Barnes & Co., publishers of mathematical text - books. Mr. Barnes personally canvassed the state of Con- necticut for patronage for their school books, and finding the manufacturing facilities at Hartford limited, the house was removed in 1840 to Philadelphia, and in 1844 to New York, where they published " The National Series " of standard school books. He founded and pub- lished the Magazine of American History. He was a liberal benefactor of the Y. M. C. A., the Academy of Music and the Public library in Brooklyn, and of the Long Island Historical society and the various Presbyterian boards of missions. He gave Barnes Iiall costing |45000 to Cornell university and $25,000 to the Home for Incurables, in Brooklyn. He was married in 1841 to Harriet Burr, and in 1883 to Mary M. Smith. He died Feb. 17. 1888.

BARNES, Cassius McDonald, governor of Olclahoma Territory, was born in Livingston county, N.Y., Aug. 25, 1845 ; son of Henry Ilogan and Cemantha (Boyd) Barnes ; and grandson of Gideon Barnes. He was educated in the public schools and at the Weslej^an seminar}^ Albion, Mich. In 1858 he was a telegraph operator at Leavenworth, Kan., and in 1861 enlisted in the Union army and was successively private secre- tary to Gen. Natlianiel Lyon and in the military telegraph and engineering corps. He was chief deputy United States marshal of the western district of Arkansas at Fort Smith, Ark., 1876- '86, and receiver of public moneys of the land ofiice at Guthrie. Oklahoma, in 1889. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1893, and