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BARRY, Henry W., representative, was born in New York city about 1835. He received a limited education and in early manhood became principal of Locust Grove academy in Kentucky. He entered the Union army as a private in 1861, organized the first 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 rank 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. He was a member of the state constitutional convention in 1867, a state senator in 1868, and was a representative from Mississippi in the 41st, 42d and 43d congresses, 1869-'75. He died in Washington, D.C., June 7, 1875.

BARRY, John, naval officer, was born at Tacumshane, Ireland, in 1745. He became a skilful sailor and in 1760 settled in Philadelphia, Pa., and engaged in the shipping business, amassing a fortune. He enlisted in the continental army in 1775; commanded the Lexington, and captured the Edward, the first British vessel taken by the American 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 subsequently 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, which took Laurens to France, and captured the ships Trepassey 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 well-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 constructed 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 parish 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 his ordination to the priesthood, in 1825, he became rector of the church of the Holy Trinity in Augusta, Ga. Here he did inestimable service during the epidemic of cholera in 1832, caring for the sick in his own house, and afterwards converting it into an asylum for the orphaned survivors of the victims of the pestilence. In 1839 Bishop England appointed him vicar of his see, and in 1841 he became vicar-general of the diocese of Charleston, and superior of the Theological 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 he again exerted his humanity during the epidemic of yellow fever; and when Bishop Gartland succumbed to its ravages, he was appointed administrator of the diocese; as such he attended the eighth council of Baltimore. He was consecrated bishop in 1857. He never recuperated the strength he had spent so freely for others, and the gradual declension of his health caused him to visit Europe. He died in Paris, France, Nov. 19, 1859.

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 Constantine. He helped to formulate the constitution 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 "Wilmot 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 Brown 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 pursue his studies in Göttingen and Paris. He was ordained a Unitarian minister in 1830, and for five years was pastor of the South church, Lowell, Mass. From 1833 to 1844 he preached at Framingham, Mass. Ill-health then compelled him to surrender his charge, and he spent three years traveling 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 1850 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 History of Framingham, Mass." (1856); "Antiquities of Wisconsin" (1857), and "Letters from the East." He died in Chicago, Ill., Jan. 17, 1885.

BARRY, William Farquhar, soldier, was born in New York city, Aug. 18, 1818. In 1838 he was graduated from West Point with the brevet rank of 2d lieutenant of 2d