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BARRY, Henry W., representative, was born in New Yi>rk city about 1S;55. He received a liiniteii etiucation ami in early inanlioiHl became priuci|KiI i»f Locust Grove academy in Kentucky. He entered the Union army as a private in 18G1, organized the lirst regiment of colored troops raised in Kentucky, commanded a brigade and at one time a division of the army, and was twice brevetted for gallant conduct, attaining the brevet i"ank of major-general of volunteers. He settled in Mississippi at the close of the war and was graduated from the Columbian Law school, D.C, lS(iT. He was a member of the state con- stitutional convention in 18(57. a state senator in 1808, and was a representative from Mississippi in the 41st, 42d and 43d congresses, 1869-75. He dif.l in Wasliington. D.C, June 7, 1875.

BARRY, John, naval officer, was born at Ta- cumshane, Ireland, in 1745. He became a skilful sailor and in 1760 settled in Philadelphia. Pa., and engaged in the sliipping business, amassing a for- tune. He enlisted in the continental army in 1775; commanded the Lexington, and captured the Ed- trard, the first British vessel taken b}' the Ameri- can navy. He next commanded the Effingham, until the British occupation of Philadelphia, when he volunteered for land service. He made a night attack in small boats on the Delaware river in 1777, and succeeded in capturing a British vessel; served as aide to General Cadwalader. and subse- quently was offered money and a place in the English navy to surrender the Effingham, which he refused. He commanded the Raleigh, and in 1781. the Alliance, wiiichtook Laurens to Fiance. and captured the ships Trespasa and Atalanta. In 1782 he made another trip to France to convey Noailles and Lafayette, and later cruised in the West Indies and engaged the enemy in several we 11 -contested sea fights. In 1794, when the new United States navy was organized, he was given the rank of commodore, and ranked as senior officer. The frigate United States was con- structed under his supervision, and for some years he was her commander. He died Sept. 13,1803.

BARRY, John, R.C. bishop, was born in the par- ish of Oylegate. County Wexford, Ireland, in 1799. He came to America before the completion of his ecclesiastical course, which he resumed at the .seminary at Charleston, under Bishop England. After liis ordination to the priesthoo<l, in 1825, he became rector of the church of the Holy Trinity in Augusta, Ga. Here lie did inestimable service during the epidemic of cholera in 1832, caring for the sick in his own hoiLse. and afterwards con- verting it into an asylum for the orphaned sur- vivors of the victims of the jifistilence. In 1839 Bishop England apjKjinted him vicar of his see, and in 1844 he became vicar-general of the dio- cese of Charleston, and superior of the Theologi-

cal seminary. He established the first Catholic parochial school in Georgia. He attended the sixth council of Baltimore in 1846, and in 1853 went as vicar-general to Savannah. Here lie again exerted liis humanity during the epidemic of yellow fever; and when Bishop Gartland suc- cumbed to its ravages, he was appointed adminis- trator of the diocese; as such he attended the eighth council of Baltimore. He was consecrated bishop in 1857. He never recui)erated the strength he liad si)ent so freely for others, and the gradual declension of his health caused him to visit Eu- rope. He died in Paris, France, Nov. 19, 1S59.

BARRY, John S., governor of Michigan, was born in Vermont in 1802. He received an ordinary education, and while still a youth settled in Atlanta, Ga., and in 1832 went to Michigan, where he established himself in business at Con- stantine. He helped to formulate the constitu- tion of Michigan on its admission to the Union in 1836, and was elected to the state senate, and re- elected in 1840. He was elected in 1841 governor of his state and served for three terms: 1842-46, and 1850-'52. He was again named as a candidate for gubernatorial honors in 1860, but was not elected. He was a firm supporter of the " Wilraot Proviso," and an ultra Democrat in his principles. In 1864 he was a member of the Democratic national convention that nominated George B. McClellan for president. He died in Constantine, Mich.. Jan. 14, 1870.

BARRY, William, author, was born in Boston, Mass., Jan. 10, 1805. After graduating at Browm university, in 1822, he devoted himself to the study of law, but changed law for theology, and after a course of two years at the Cambridge divinity school, went abroad to pm-sue his studies in Gottingen and Paris. He was ordained a Unitarian minister in 1830, and for five years was pastor of the South church, Lowell, Mass. From 1835 to 1844 he preached at Framingham, Mass. Ill-health then compelled him to surrender his charge, and he spent three years travelling in Europe and Asia. On his return he took charge of a church in Lowell, and in 1851 resigned to take another trip to Europe. He went to Chicago in 1856 and organized the historical society of which he was secretary and librarian until 1868. He published several works, among them: " Rights and Duties of Neighboring Churches "; " Thoughts on Christian Doctrine" (1855); ''A HLstory of Framingham, Mass." (1847); "Antiquities of Wis- consin " (1857), and " Letters from the East." He died in Cliicago. III.. Jan. 17. 1885.

BARRY, William Farquhar, soldier, was born in New York city, Aug. 8. 1818. In 1838 he w^as graduated fron\ West Point with the brevet rank of 2d lieutenant of 4th artillery, given the rank of 2d lieutenant of 2d