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BANTA, Rollin L .:
Physician and cdugitor; born Nov. 13, 1918, in Buffalo, N. Y. ; attended Manhat- tar College; was graduated from Buffalo Mellcal College, 1571; married Oct. 27. 1875. Surah M. Ayer; practiced medicine in Erie, Pa., 1823-76, and since 1878, in Buffalo; Professor of Medical Department of Niagara University since 1891. Ad- dres. Buffalo, N. Y.
BARBER, Amzi Lorenzo:
Contractor: born Saxton's River, Vt., June 22, 1:43; removed with family to Bellevue, Huron County, O., 1852; to East Cleveland, 1856, and later to Austinburg, Ashtabula County O .; attended public schools and Cleveland High School; was graduated from Oberlin College, 1857, B. A .; 1868, principal of preparatory depart- ment of Howard University at Washing- ton; subsequently professor of natural philosophy at university; 1872, took up real estate business; since 1883, president of Barber Asphalt Pavement Co .; since 1$$8 president of Trinidad Asphalt Co .; 1887, negotiated concession of Great Brit- ain of Pitch Lake of Trinidad for forty- two years; prior to 1892 laid more than
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6,000,000 square yards pavement, amount- honorably ing to over $20,000,000; trustee of Oberlin College; director of Washington Loan & Trust Co., etc .; fellow of American So- ciety of Civil Engineers, Ohio Society; member of Engineers, Manhattan Ath- letic, New York Yacht and Corinthian Yacht Clubs and of New York Geograph- ical Society; received A. M. from Oberlin and L.L B. from Columbian University; married, 1867, to Celia M, Bradley, of Ge- neva, O .; 1871, to Julia Louise Langdon. Address 7 East 42d St., N. Y. City. BARBER, Arthur William:
Lawyer; born Chazy, N. Y., February 21, 1872; in 1891 he completed his preparatory studies in Plattsburgh High School and entered Cornell University, from which he was graduated as Bachelor of Arts, in 1895, having received the Phi Beta Kappa for scholarship in his junior year; he was awarded the degree of LL. B. in the New York Law School in 1897, and the LL. M. by the New York Univer- sity in 1899; he was admitted to the Bar in 1897, since which time he has engaged in practice in N. Y. City; is a member of the Cornell University Club, Association of the Bar, and Phi Beta Kappa Alumni; married Sept. 1, 1903, Harriet Marshal Scott, St. Louis, Mo; he is an independent Republican in politics and has been iden- tified with the Citizens Union since 1897; he is junior member of the firm of Forbes & Haviland. Address, 32 Nassau St., N. Y. City.
BARBER, Le Droict Langdon:
President of Ardsley Electric Co. and Ardsley Water Co .; born May 1873, Washington, D. C .; married ; vice-presi- dent of Lorena Co .; member of Sons of American Revolution, Society of Colonial Wars and Ardsley and New York Yacht Clubs: Automobile Club of America. Res- idence, Ardsley-on-Hudson, N. Y .; office, 17 Battery Place, N. Y. City.
BARBER, Thomas Henry :
Brigadier-general, U. S. Volunteers; graduate of Military Academy, 1867; var- ious positions to Sept. 28, 1881; alde-de - camp to Major General Hancock, 1881-85; resigned from army July 1, 1885; colonel 12th Regiment, N. G. N. Y., 1889; In- spector General, N. G. N. Y .; resigned from National Guard 1891; mustered in U. S. service May 20, 1898; command of U. S. forces Honolulu and took part in annexation ceremonies of Sandwich Islands as representative of
U. S. Army; commissioned brigadier gener- al U. Volunteers, 10, 1899;
S. Jan.
discharged from volunteer
service, February 28, 1899; held the
following positions in public institu- tions: Vice-president Society of First Aid to the Injured, vice-president Rogers Memorial Library, Southampton, L. I., vice-president Southampton Village Im- provement Society, manager Samaritan Home for the Aged, manager of the Society, trustee Greenwich Savings Bank, also the following club offices: President House of Refuge for Juvenile Delinquents, Currituck Shooting Club, North Carolina, president Shinnecook Hill Golf Club, gov- ernor Union Club, governor Knickerbocker Club, governor University Club. Address, 45 East 68th St., N. Y. City.
BARBEY, Henry I .:
Born Jan. 17, 1832, N. Y. City ; educated in Geneva, Switzerland; director Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg R. R. Co. and Gallatin National Bank; trustee New York Life Insurance and Trust Co .; member Union, Metropolitan, New York, Tuxedo, New York Yacht and Whist Clubs, Ameri- can Museum of Natural History, American Geographical Society and Metropolitan Mu- seum of Art. Residence, 17 W. 38th St .; office, 36 Wall St., N. Y. City.
BARBOUR, Ralph Henry ("Richard Still- man Powell") :
Author; born Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 13, 1870; son of James Henry Barbour; ed- ucated New Church School, Waltham, Mass., and Highland Military Academy, Worcester, Mass .; married, Denver, Colo., 1885, Mabel Latshaw King; author: Phyl- lis in Bohemia (with L. H. Bickford) ; The Half-back; For the Honor of the School; Captain of the Crew; Behind the Line; The Land of Joy; Weatherby's In- ning; On Your Mark !; The Arrival of Jimpson; The Book of School and College Sports; Kitty of the Roses. Address, care D. Appleton & Co., 436 Fifth Ave., N. Y. City.
BARBOUR, William D .:
Banker; born Brooklyn; educated in N. Y. City; married; member Sons of Rev- olution, National Arts, National Sculpture, Huguenot, New England and St. An- drews Societies, Union League Club. Res- idence, Hotel Collingwood, 45 West 35th St .; office, 25 Broad St., N. Y. City. BARCLAY, Henry A .:
Capitalist; born Dec. 4, 1844, Astoria, L. I .; married Clara Oldfield Wright; member of Union, Metropolitan, and Su- burban Riding and Driving Clubs. Ad- dress, 280 Broadway, N. Y. City.
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BARD, Albert Sprague:
Lawyer; born Dec. 19, 1566, Norwich, Conn .; prepared at Norwich Free Acad- emy, and St. John's Military School, Man- lins, N. Y .; A. B. Amherst College, 1858; LL. B. and A. M., Harvard University, 1892; member of University, City, Har- vard and Chi Psi Clubs, Bar Association, New England Society, Amherst College Alumni Association. Residence, The Roy- alton, 44 West 44th St .; office, 25 Broad St. (Bard & Calkins), N. Y. City.
BARDEEN, Charles William:
Educator and author; born Groton, Mass., August 28, 1547; prepared at Law- rence Academy, Groton, Mass .; was grad- uated from Yale, 1869; married, New Hal- ven, Conn., 1868, Ellen Palmer Dickerman; enlisted in 1st Massachusetts Volunteers, July, 1862, serving until reglinent was dis- charged, May 25, 1864; in charge of High School, Meriden, Conn., 1868; Weston, Conn., Boarding School, 1869; vice- president State Normal School of Connec- ticut, 1870; became school superintendent at Whitehall, N. Y., 1872; editor of School Bulletin from 1574; director National Ed- ucational Association, 1891-95; elected president Educational Press Association of America, 1900, and since holds office; also president Yale Club, Syracuse; Fellow of American Geographical Society; mem- ber of American Association for the Ad- vancement of Science, and of the Amer- ican Social Science Association; has pub- lished Manual of School Law (1575), Rod- erick Hume (1875), The Song Budget (1878), Some Facts About Our Public School System (1578), Educational Jour- nalism (1881), Verbal Pitfalls, Outlines of Sentence Making (1884), Teaching as a Business for Men (1885), A System of Rhetoric (1884), The Teacher's Commer- cial Value (1885), Physiology (1884), Or- ganization and System vs. Originality (1890), The Taxpayer and the Township System (1891), The Song Century (1558), The Little Old Man, or the School for Il- liberal Mothers (1893), History of Educa- tional Journalism in New York (1893), Teaching as a Business (1897), Some Problems of City School Management (1899), Educational Journalism, An In- ventory (1899), Continuous Contracts for Teachers (1900), Dictionary of Education- al Biography (1901), A Manual of Civ- ics (1902), Fifty-five years Old, and Other Stories (1904), The Woman Trustee (1904). and others. Residence, 1109 E. Genesee St .; office, 406 S. Franklin St., Syracuse, N. Y.
BARDWELL, Darwin Long:
Superintendent of City Schools of Binghamton; born March 30, 1860, Shel- turne, Mass .; was graduated from Am- herst College in 1883; married; inspector of High Schuols for the University of the State of New York; member Bingham- ton Club, Knight Templar and Thirty- Second Degree Mason Residence, 41 Riverside Drive; office, City Hall, Bing- Yamton, N. Y.
BARKER, Benjamin:
Lawyer; born July 19, 1558, Olean, N. Y .; was graduated from Brown Uni- versity 1881, and Columbia Law School, I\\3; single; meniber Alpha Delta Ph. ind Phí Beta Kappa Fraternities, University, Lawyers and
City Clubs New England Society, and City Bar and Prown University Alumni Associations. Residence, 19 West 31st St .; office, 5€ Pine St., N. Y. City.
BARKER, Frederick:
Merchant; born April 29, 1539, Mont - ville, Me .; Captain, Co. I, 26th Regt., Me Vols. in Civil War; served in Virginia, and later in 19th Army Corps; was in the Red River campaign, and in battles of Franklin and Irish Bend. La., and at the siege of Port Hudson, member of G. A. R .; wholesale hardware merchant; mem- bre of State Hardware Association. Ad- dress, Elmira, N. Y.
BARKER, John W .:
Captain U. S. Army; born New York; appointed to U. S. Military Academy from New York, June 1, 1890, graduate and appointed second lieutenant Ninth In- fantry, June 12, 1894; transferred to Third Infantry, Aug. 30, 1594; first lieutenant, April 26, 1598; captain, Feb. 2, 1901; vol- unteer service, captain, commissary sub- sistence, June 8, 1898 (declined) ; major chief ordnance officer, July 27, 1898; hon- orably discharged, Nov. 30, 1898. Ad- dress, Fort W. H. Seward, Alaska. BARLOW, John Whitney :
Brigadier-general, U. S. Army; born New York, June 26, 1838; appointed from Wisconsin; cadet at the U. S. Military Academy, July 1, 1836; graduated, May 6, 1861; second lieutenant Second U. S. Artillery, May 6, 1861; first lieutenant, May 15, 1861; transferred to Topograph- ical Engineers, July 24, 1862; transferred to engineers, March 3, 1863; captain, July 3, 1863; major April 23, 1869; lieutenant- colonel, March 19, 1884; colonel, May 10, 1895; brigadier-general and chief of Engi- neers, May 2, 1901; retired, May 3, 1901, at his own request, after 40 years' service;
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brevet rank-brevet captain, May 27, 1862, for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Hanover Court House, Va .; brevet major, July 22, 1864, for gal- lant and meritorious services in the At- lanta campaign; brevet lieutenant colo- nel, March 13, 1865, for gallant and meri- torious services in the battles before Nashville, Tenn .; vice-with Light Bat- tery First Bull Run, Va .; with Horse Battery M, Second Artillery, in Penin- sula campaign; siege of and advance Yorktown; battles of Wilmington, Han- over Court House, where recommended for medal of honor for holding in check with one gun a division of the enemy; in seven days' battles before Richmond, Va., especially at Malvern Hill, July 1, 1862, remaining with rear guard during the movement of army to James River, and the transfer of the army to the de- fence of Washington, D. C .; Seventeenth Army Corps, July 22 to Aug. 27, 1864; in charge of the defences of Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 13, 1864, to Oct., 1865; mem- ber association of Graduates of the U. S. Military Academy, the Military Service Institution, the society of the Army of the Potomac, the Society of the Army of the Cumberland, the Society of the Army of the Tennessee; Companion of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. Member of the New York Athletic Club and the National Arts Club of New York. Ad- dress, 43 Federal St., New London, Conn. BARLOW, Peter Townsend:
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City Magistrate; born June 21, 1857, N. Y. City; was graduated from Harvard Col- lege, 1879, and Columbia Law School, 1SS1, Married May 6, 1886, Virginia Louise Mat- thews. Director of the Stirling R. R. Co., and Witte Water Co. manager, New York office of Guardian Trust Co. Mem- ber of University, Union, Metropolitan, Harvard, Racquet and New York Yacht clubs, and Down Town association. Ad- dress, 55 East Twenty-first St .; office, 1 Nassau St., N. Y. City.
BARNABEE, Henry Clay:
Singer; born Portsmouth, N. H., Nov. 14, 1833; in the year 1854, first appeared in public entertainments as basso and hu- morous vocalist; subsequently member of choirs in churches of Boston and vicinity; established Barnabee Operatic Co .; and Barnabee Concert Co .; member of Boston Ideal Opera Co., and in 1887 organized Bostonians, and has played leading parts in that famous aggregation since that date; member of Ancient and Honorable Artillery Co., Boston; married Clara
George, of Warner, N. H., 1859. Address, Players Club, Gramercy Park, N. Y. City. BARNARD, Charles:
Writer; born Boston, Feb. 13, 1838; eld- est son of Rev. Charles Francis Barnard and Sarah Holmes Barnard; married Mary E. Knight of N. Y. City; contribut- ing editor to the Century Dictionary and writer of many educational and popular scientific artieles for the magazines. Au- thor of several books for young people upon music, horticulture, physics, etc. These books include: The Tone Masters, Handkerchief Garden, Talks About the Weather, The Soil and Plants, Simple Flower Garden, First Steps in Electricity, and, with the late Professor Meyer, a book upon Light; published in 1903; Tools and Machines, a school book, and The Door in the Book, a religious story book for young people. Author of The Country Fair and other plays; author of a great number of children's stories, chiefly of a religious or scientific charac- ter and also lecturer before schools and educational bodies upon technical sub- jects. Author of several short novels, in- cluding; The Soprano and Camilla, a Tale of a Violin, etc. Address, 139 E. 39th St., N. Y. City.
BARNARD, George Grey:
Sculptor; born Bellefonte, Pa., May 24, 1863; at about age of 16 went to Chi- eago, studying for one year at the Art Institute; later spent four years in Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts, Paris; first ex- hibited in Salon of Champ de Mars in 1894, and at once elected associate of Societé Nationale des Beaux Arts; became widely known for his splendid produc- tions, Brotherly Love; Norway; Two Na- tures; and The God Pan, in Metropolitan Museum of Art. Address, care Metropoli- tan Museum of Art, N. Y. City.
BARNARD, William Nichols:
Educator; was graduated from Cornell University, M. E., 1897. Assistant profes- sor of Machine Design in Cornell Univer- sity. Address, Cornell Heights, Ithaca, N. Y.
BARNES, Alfred C .:
Publisher and banker; eldest son and successor of A. S. Barnes as head of the publishing house of A. S. Barnes & Co .; vice-president of American Book Co .; founder and president of Astor Place Bank; chairman of Associated Bankers of N. Y. City, 1900-01; member of the Chamber of Commerce, N. Y. City, and Manufacturers' Association of New York; accompanied 7th Regiment to the front
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in 1861; was with the 23rd Regiment at Venezuela Blockade, for New York Out- Gettysburg in 1963; Brigadier General and look, Works: For King or Country ; Na- val Actions of the War of 1812; A Prince- tonion ; Midshipnian Farragut ; A Loyal Traitor ; Commodore Bainbridge; Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors; The Hero of Erie : With the Flag in the Channel; The Grat War Trek; The Giant of Three Wars. Address, 10 E. 79th St , N. Y. City. BARNES, J. Sanford, Jr .: General Inspector of Rifle Practice State of New York, 1850; late Colonel 13th Reg- iment, National Guard, New York, later Past Colonel 23rd Regiment, National ·Guard, New York; Commander Lafayette Post No. 140. Grand Army of the Repub- lic; trustee Brooklyn Bridge during peri- od of construction; Inte president of Brooklyn Library; now trustee of Brook- Lawyer; vice-president Interlake Pulp and Paper Co .; director Central Cross- town R. R. Co. Second Avenue R. R. Co .; tre Turer Great Northern Paper Co. Residence, 10 East 79th St .; office, 51 Wall St., N. Y. City. lyn Public Library; founder and first president of Oxford Club, Brooklyn; now president of Aldine Club, Manhattan; member of Tuxedo and Hamilton and Cornell University Clubs; member of So- cieties of Colonial Wars, Sons of the BARNES, John S .: Revolution, War of 1812, and the Penn- lawyer, vil president Interlake Pulp and Paper Co .: director Central Cross- town R. R. Co., S.cond Aveme R. R. Co .; treasurer Great Northern Papor Co. Rosi- no, 12 E 45th St. ; office, 32 Nassau St. N. Y. City. sylvania Soclety; trustee of Cornell Uni- versity; former trustee of Polytechnic Institute and of Adelphi Academy, Brook- lyn, also of Brooklyn Hospital; Mrs. Barnes (Josephine R.) died 1829; two children, Harrlet, wife of Truman H. BARNES, Oliver Weldon: Newberry, of Detroit, and Alfred Vic- tor, superintendent of Manufacturing for American Book Co. Address, 100 Wash- ington Square, N. Y. City.
BARNES, Henry Burr:
Publisher; born New York, Dec. 11. 1845; son of Alfred S. and Harriet Eliza- beth (Burr) Barnes; attended Polytech- nic Institute, Brooklyn, and Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass .;
graduated from Yale, A. M., 1966; mar- ried H. Elizabeth, daughter of Courtlandt P. Dixon, Brooklyn, N. Y. Editor of In- ternational Review, 1978-SO; head of the firm of A. S. Barnes & Co .; president of Barnes Carriage
Co., vice-president Barnes Real Estate Association and di- rector American Book Co., and other bus- iness enterprises. Clubs are Riding, Cen- tury, Metropolitan, Shinnecock Golf, Yale, Chamber of Commerce; Republican. Res- idence, 11 West 49th St .; office, 156 5th Ave., N. .. City.
BARNES, James :
Author; born Annapolis, Md., Sept. 19, 1864; father, Lieutenant Commander J. S. Barnes, the son of Gen. James Barnes: educated at St. Paul's School, Concord. N. H .; later went West; 1SS5-S7, civil en- gineer in construction of Missouri Pa- cific R. R .; entered Princeton; was graduated 1891; while there editor of Nassau Literary Magazine; associated with Scribner's Magazine for a time fol- lowing graduation; 1894-95, assistant edi- tor of Harper's Weekly; special corres- pondent, South Africa Boer War; 1903,
('ivil engineer; burn Berlin, Hartford Cobmy, Cont, May 15, 1523; son of Henry And Marilla (Weldon) Barnes; educated at high school, Burlington, N. J. Afterward dir cting his stud- dius in PEifndelphin and abroad to en- gineer'ng: with Pennsylvania R. R. Co. IS47-53: chief engineer Pittsburg and Connell ville R. R Co. 1853-57; engaged in construction of Western Division Pitts- burg, Fort Wayne and Chicago R. R., 1858, of St. Paul and Pacific R. R., 1861 and Frisch lines Pennsylvania R. R. 1862; chief engiiwer successively for Dutchess && Columbia, Boston, Hartford & Erie, South Pennsylvania R. R .; N. Y. and the Long Island R. R. Co .; since 1892 chief engineer and president of N. Y. Connect- ing R. R. Co. Married Elizabeth Denny, daughter of Major Ed. Harding, U. S. A .; Republican. Clubs: Union League, Amer- ican Society of Civil Engineers, New Eng- land Society and American Geographical Society. Residence, 4th St. and Central Park West; office, 55 Broadway, N. Y. City.
BARNES, Thurlow Weed:
Author; born Albany, N. Y., 28th of June, 1853; educated in Vermont and Massachusetts; was graduated from Harvard in 1876. Went into politics and newspaper work, serving as chairman of Republican committees and delegate to conventions, but has never run for of- fice. In 1884 wrote a Memoir of Thur- low Weed, his grandfather, which em- bodies the political history of N. Y. State from 1830 to 1880; traveled exten-
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sively, maintaining a residence in New York; was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1896 and a mem- ber of State Commitee. In 1898 secured for a syndicate the only concessions ever granted by the throne of China to an American; the railway from Canton to Hankow is now in course of construction, under these concessions, involving many millions of dollars; has mines In Mon- tana and railway interests in the South, to which his time is now devoted. Ad- dress, the Metropolitan Club, N. Y. City.
BARNES, William:
Lawyer; born at Pompey, Onondaga Co., N. Y., May 26, 1824; educated at pub- lic and private schools and Manlius Academy; studied law 1840-46; married Emily P. K. Weed, daughter of Thur- low Weed, July 10, 1849, who died in Feb., 1889. Five children. June, 1891, married Lizzle Balmer Williams, widow of Samuel Williams, editor of the San Francisco Bulletin. For several years member of firm of Hammond, King & Barnes, Albany; special counsel of bank- ing department; in 1855 appointed special commissioner to examine condition of several insurance companies in N. Y. City, reports of which resulted in the passage of act to organize insurance de- partment; appointed as superintendent in 1860, and held office for ten years; com- piler of elaborate insurance statistics; his ten annual reports are established authorities in this country and Europe; contributed to development of fire and life insurance during term of office; after 1870 acted as consulting counsel for sev- eral life insurance companies; in 1873 and subsequent years special counsel for City of N. Y .; acted as counsel for several hundred life insurance policy- holders; appointed by President Grant delegate to represent the U. S. at Inter- national Statistical Congress at St. Pe- tersburg, Russia; designated by Congress as member of commission to collaborate insurance statistics for all countries; specially honored by Czar Alexander II. through Russian Minister at Washing- ton; Honorable Fellow of Royal Statisti- cal Society, London, 1872; one of the founders of Ft. Orange Club, Albany; member of Albany Institute; member of American Geographical Society and of Law Institute of N. Y .; one of the founders and first president of Society of Medical Jurisprudence of New York; member of New York State Bar Asso-
ciation and introduced a resolution in 1896, approving action of Russia in call- ing the Peace Congress at the Hague and asking the President to appoint dele- gates. Superintended compilation and publication of valuable insurance statis- tics and condensed insurance reports by . the State; edited the New York State In- surance Department Life Valuation Ta- bles 1870. Member of Liberty party in 1844; in 1848 supported Martin Van Buren for Presidency; 1854, leading organizer of first Republican State Convention, Sara- toga Springs; organized New York State Kansas Aid Society, and two National Kansas conventions at Buffalo and Cleve- land, Abraham Lincoln, Gerret Smith and Eli Thayer being fellow organizers: In 1843 and 1844 organized and managed at Baldwinsville and Syracuse the first teacher's institutes ever held in the State; in 1888-92 spent several months in Arizo- na and expended large sums of money in aid of irrigation in Gila Valley and in in- troducing the beautiful Arizona onyx near Prescott to the attention of architects, artists and builders. In September 1904, Mr. Barnes was one of the most active organizers of the Successful Semi-Cen- tennial Celebration of the Republican Party, which was one of the most notable and important features of the campaign of 1904 and which contributed largely to Re- publican success and enthusiasm in the State of New York. Was a member of the International Peace Congress held at Boston Oct., 1904, and introduced the Resolutions, which were passed recom- mending the compilation by the U. S. of a volume of War Statistics for a hundred years. Mr. Barnes ig the seventh generation în descent from Thomas
Rarnes, who settled
near Hartford, Conn., about 1630, who was a soldier în the Pequot War; the name of Barnes or Barneis, can be traced back in England for over seven hundred years to the time of King John; supposed to be of Norman Scandinavian origin; several of the family were knighted; the name William Barnes was repeated during al- most every generation; family connected with the Phelps, Willard, Rice, and other old Puritan New England families. Ad- dress. Thurlow Terrace, Albany, N. Y. BARNES, William D .:
Republican State Senator, representing Rensselaer County; born Columbia Coun- ty, N. Y., April 4. 1856; was educated in public schools of Hudson; began the man- ufacture of cotton cloth in 1879 in Brain-
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ard; subsequently built paper mill, and has since been engaged in manufacture of paper, etc .; is one of the largest farm- ers in southern Renesselaer county; took lead in measures adopted for construction of Albany and Hudson electrical rail- road; elected State Senator in fall of 1901; re-elected in 1902; in 1903 appointed member of following Senate committees; Chairman of the Committee on Penal In- stitutions; member of Commerce and Navigation, Military Affairs, and Banks. Address, Brainard, N. Y.
BARNETTE, William Jay :
Captain, U. S. Navy; born Morrisville, N. Y., Feb. 2, 1847; educated in Morris- ville and Oneida Seminary; entered Naval Academy, July 27, 1864; was graduated, 1868; Asiatic Fleet, 1868-70; promoted to Ensign, 1869; and to Mas- ter. 1870; torpedo duty, 1871; Wabash.
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