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to which she constantly contributed. In 1890 she was chosen fraternal delegate to the annual meeting of the British women's temperance association held in London. In i891 she was made the World's superintendent of the Y. W. C. T. U., and under her care the work grew to a total membership of thirty thousand in the United States alone. Mrs. Barnes's work included the delivering of addresses and organizing of new local unions. After 1885 she was president of the Loyal legion temperance society of New York city.

BARNES, Qeorge Thomas, representative, was born in Richmond county, Ga., Aug. 14, 1833. He was educated at the Riclmiond county academy, and at the University of Georgia, Athens, where he was graduated in August, 1853. He then studied law and was admitted to the Georgia bar in 1855, and practised in Augusta. He served in the Confederate army as an officer in the artillery in the first year of the war, in Georgia, and in 1863 and 1864 in Virginia. He was a member of the house of representatives of the state of Georgia in 1860, '61, '63 and '65, and was elected to represent the 10th Georgia district in the 49th, 50th and 51st congresses, being succeeded in the 52d Congress by Thomas E. Watson. As a member of the National Democratic executive committee in 1876 and 1880 he ably represented the party in Georgia, and was chosen as delegate-at-large to the Na- tional Democratic conventions of 1868, '76 and '80.

BARNES, James, soldier, was born in Boston, Mass.. in 1»U6. He w;is graduated at West Point in 1829; served as assistant instructor there 1829- "30; was promoted lieutenant of artillery and participated in the Black Hawk expedition. He was an assistant instructor at West Point, 1833- '6, resigned from the army in 1836, and became a civil engineer. He was commissioned colonel of volunteers in the Union army in 1861; brigadier- general of volunteers in 1862, and was severely wounded at Gettysburg. He commanded the de- fences of Norfolk and Portsmoutli, Va., 1863-'64; later the district of St. Mary's and Point Lookout, and was brevetted major-general of volunteers in March, 1865. He was mustered out of the service in 1866. He died at Springfield, Mass, Feb. 12, 1869. BARNES, James, author, was born at Annap- olis, Md., Sept. 19, 1866; son of Lieut. Com- mander John S. and Susan (Bainbridge) Barnes; grandson of Gen. James Barnes; and great- grandson of Commodore Bainbridge. He was prepared for college at St. Paul's school, Concord, N.H., and was graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1891. While at Princeton he was one of the editors of the Nassau Literary Maga- zine. He was employed on Scribner's Magazine,

1891-'93; and was assistant editor of Harper's Weekly, 1894-95. He is the author of " For King or Country" (1895); " Naval Actions of 1812" (1896); " APrincetonian" (1896); "Midshipman Farragut" (1896); "A Loyal Traitor" (1897); "Commodore Bainbridge" (1897); "Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors" (1897); "The Hero of Erie" (1898); " Drake and His Yeomen" (1899); "David Farragut" (1899); " Songs of Ships and Sailors •' (1899).

BARNES, Joseph K., surgeon, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., July 21, 1817. He was edu- cated at Harvard; was graduated at the Univer- sity of Penns3dvania, M.D., 1838, and practised in Philadelphia, 1833-40. He was commissioned assistant surgeon at the U.S. military academy in 1840; served in Florida, during the Seminole war under General Harney and at Fort Jessup, La., 1842-'6, and later during the Mexican war under Generals Taylor and Scott. In 1854 he re- to West Point, where he remained until turned 1859, when he was transferred to Oregon. On the outbreak of the civil war he was summoned to Washington and placed on duty in the surgeon- general's office, remaining there for two years, when he was made medical inspector with the rank of colonel. In September, 1863, he suc- ceeded Dr. Hammond as surgeon-general and was promoted brigadier-general. At the time of President Lincoln's assassination, General Barnes was the first physician called to his bedside, and the same evening he attended Secretary Seward and his son. He was one of the consulting physi- cians to President Garfield. He was a trustee of Peabody educational fund and commissioner of the Soldiers' home. The royal medical societies of London, Paris and Moscow made him an honorary member. In 1882 he was retired, and he died in Washington, D. C, March 25. 1883.

BARNES, Phinehas, poUtician, was born at Orland, Me., Jan. 11, 1811. He was prepared for college at Phillips academy, Andover, Mass. , and was graduated from Bowdoin college in 1830. He was clerk in a bookstore; edited a paper in Bangor, and from 1834 to 1839 occupied the chair of Greek and Latin at Waterville college. He then studied law; was admitted to practice and established a large business in Portland, being solicitor of the Grand Trunk railroad, and trustee of the Atlantic and St. Lawrence railroad. He filled numerous offices of trust and responsibility, acting as a trustee of the Maine general hospital, and of the state agricultural college, an overseer of Bowdoin college, a director of the Portland savings bank, and for several years editor of the Advertiser. In i860 he was nominated by the Whigs on the Constitutional Union ticket for governor of Maine, but was not elected. He died in Portland, Me., Aug. 21, 1871.