The Biographical Dictionary of America/Barry, William

​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.

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