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was a member of the 3d and 4th legislatures of Oklahoma, 1895-'97, and speaker of the house in the 3d legislature. He was appointed governor of Oklahoma Territory in April, 1897, by President McKinley, and served until May 13, 1901.

BARNES, Charles Reid, educator, was born in Madison, Ind., Sept. 7, 1858, son of Charles and Sarah Eliza (Reid) Barnes and a descendant of George Barnes. He was graduated at Hanover college, in 1877; pursued graduate courses at Harvard 1877-'78; 1885-'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 professor of plant physiology at the University of Chicago from 1898. He received the degree Ph.D. from Hanover college in 1886; was secretary of the Botanical society of America, and of the American association for the advancement of science, 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 Corry, Pa., in 1864, son of Joseph and Ann (Webster) Barnes. He was graduated at Yale, A.B., 1889; B.D., 1893; was a fellow of the University of Chicago, 1892-'3, receiving the degree A.M. from it in 1893. He was a student of sociology at Hull House social settlement, Chicago, 1893-'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, Ill.; served as director of the Students' Christian settlement in Paris, and as acting president of the American Art Association of Paris, 1898-'9. He was an instructor in sociology and director of the university settlement work in the University of Chicago, 1899-1900, and president and professor of sociology in Illinois college from 1900.

BARNES, Daniel Henry, educator, was born at Canaan, Columbia county, N.Y., April 25, 1785. After his graduation from Union college in 1809, he spent 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 minister. 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. Disappointed in this he, in 1816, became principal of the Union college classical school, many of his pupils afterwards attaining distinction, and in 1819 professor of languages in the Baptist theological seminary, New York city. This institution was transferred to Hamilton, N.Y., and Mr. Barnes established an English and classical school in New York city, in which he was very successful. A few years later he became associate principal of the high school for boys in New York city. In 1827 he refused an election to the presidency of Waterville college, Me., and also that of Columbian college, Washington, D.C. He was eminent as a conchologist. and contributed to the American Journal 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 technology. From 1882 to 1887 he was chief draughtsman and mechanical engineer at the Rhode Island locomotive works, and in 1887 became a consulting engineer for New York and Chicago, having his principal office in the latter city. He established a very wide practice, 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 by Brown university the degree of A.M. by special vote. He was a member of the American society of mechanical 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" by Arthur Tannatt Woods, published in 1893, and was the author of various scientific and technical papers. He died in New York city, Dec. 15, 1896.

BARNES, Frances Julia Allis, reformer, was born at Skaneateles, N.Y., April 14, 1846. She was educated at Packer institute, Brooklyn, in which city she lived several years. In September, 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 Chicago, W.C.T.U. In 1879 she returned to New York city and in 1880 was appointed superintendent of the National young women's Christian temperance union. In 1887 the Oak and Ivy Leaf, the organ of the Y.W.C.T.U., appeared,