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BARNES.BARNES. wa-s a member of the 3cl ami 4th legislatures of Oklahoma. 189.V97, and speaker of the liouse in the:3<1 l.';;islature. He was appointed governor of Oklahoma Territory in April. 1897, by Presi- dent M.Kinley. and served until May 13, 1001.

BARNES, Charles Reid, educator, was born in Madisnn. Ind.. Sept. 7, 1858, son of Cliarlesand Sarali FAizn (Ueid) Barnes and a descendant of (Jeorge Barnes. He was graduated at Hanover college, in 1877; pursued graduate courses at Harvard 1877-78: 188.j-'86, and in 1892. He was professor of natural history at Purdue university, Lafayette. Ind., 1879-87; professor of botany at the University of Wisconsin 1887-'98. and profes- sor of ])lant physiology at the University of C'lii- cago from 1898. He received the degree Ph.D. from Hanover college in 1886; was secretary of the Bt)tanical .society of America, and of the American association for the advancement of s«Mence. and co-editor of the Botanical Gazette. He is the author among others of " Plant Life " (1898); •• Outlines of Plant Life " (1899).

BARNES, Clifford Webster, educator, was born at (Orry. Pa., in 1804. son of Joseph and Ann (\Vf lister) Barnes. He was graduated at Yale, A.B, 1889: B.D., 1893; was a fellow of the University of Chicago, 1892-3, receiving the de- gree A.M. from it in 1893. He was a student of sociology at Hull House social settlement, Chicago, 189:i-'7, pastor in Chicago, 1894-7, and a .student at Oxford, England, in 1898. He was married in 1898 to Alice Reid of Lake Forest, 111.; served as director of the Students' Chri.stian settlement in Paris, and as acting president of the American Art As.sociation of Paris, 1898-'9. He was an instructor in sociology and director of the university .settlement work in the Uni- versity of Chicago. 1899-1900, and president and professor of .sociology in Illinois college from 1900.

BARNES, Daniel Henry, educator, was born at Canajiu. Columbia county, N. Y., April 2."), 178."). After his graduation from Union college in 1809, lie si)ent two years in studying Hebrew under an eminent instructor. In 1811 he removed to Poughkeepsie, where he became principal of the academy, and in the same year began the study of divinity, with the intention of becoming a Baptist mini.ster. He received his preacher's license in 1813, and in 1814 went to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he taught a school for .several years, hoping to see it grow into a Baptist college. nisappointe<l in this he, in 1816, became principal of the Union college classical school, many of liis pupils afterwards attaining distinction, and in 1819 professor of languages in the Bapti.st theologi- cal seminary. New York city. This institution was transferred to Hamilton, N. Y., and Mr. Barnes established an En^^lish and classical school in New York city, in which he was very successful.

A few years later he became associate principal of the high scliool for boys in New Y(jrk city. In 1827 he refused an election to the presidency of Waterville college. Me., and also that of Colum- bian college, Wasliington, D. C. He was eminent as a conchologist. and contributed to the Ameri- can JouDial of Science and Art papers on "Geological Section of the Canaan Mountain," " Memoir of the Genera Unio and Alasmodonta, " " Five Species of Chiton," " Magnetic Polarity," "Reclamation of Unios," and "Memoir on Batrachian Animals and Doubtful Reptiles." He also rendered service in preparing the original edition of " Webster's Dictionary." He died at Troy, N. Y., Oct. 27, 1828.

BARNES, David Leonard, civil engineer, was born near Providence, R. I., Aug. 23, 1858. He was graduated from Brown university in 1879, and studied engineering at the Massachusetts institute of teclmology. From 1882 to 1887 he was chief draughtsman and mechanical engi- neer at the Rhode Island locomotive works, and in 1887 became a consulting engineer for New York and Chicago, having his princii)al office in the latter city. He established a very wide prac- tice, covering mechanical, civil and electrical engineering, and was consulting engineer for several western and southern railroads, foreign manufacturers, and for the Railroad Gazette, New York, of which periodical he was for about eight years previous to his death on the editorial staff. In 1890 he was awarded hj Brown uni- versity the degree of A.M. by special vote. He was a member of the American society of me- chanical engineers; American association for the advancement of science; American society of civil engineers; treasurer of the Western society of engineers, and vice-president of the Western railway club. He revised the second edition of " Compound Locomotives " In* Arthur Tannatt Woods, published in 1893, and was the autlior of various scientific and technical papers. He died in New Y'ork city, Dec. 15, 1896.

BARNES, Frances Julia Allis, reformer, was born at Skaneateles, N. Y., April 14, 1.846. She was educated at Packer institute, Brooklyn, in which city she lived several years. In Septem- ber, 1871, she was married to Willis A. Barnes, and resided in New York city until 1874, when they removed to Chicago, where Mrs. Barnes became interested in the temperance cause, and for five years worked with Frances E. Willard, corresponding secretary of the National woman's Christian temperance union, and with the Chi- cago, W. C. T. U. In 1879 she returned to New York city and in 1880 was appointed superinten- dent of the National young women's Christian temi^erance union. In 1887 the Oak and In/ Lcx.if, the organ of the Y. W. C. T. U., appeared.