officers resisted this, and a bitter correspondence between Barron and Decatur en JAMES BARRON. sued. Barron challenged his antagonist to fight a duel. They met near Bladensburg (March 22, 1820), and Decatur was mortally wounded. Barron was severely hurt, but recovered after several months of suffering. During the latter years of his long life Barron held several important commands on shore. He became senior officer of the navy in 1839, and died in Norfolk, Va., April 21, 1851. born in Medina, Mich., July 11, 1847; was graduated at Olivet College, Mich., in 1867, and studied at Yale, Union, and Andover theological seminaries, and at Göttingen, Germany. After two short pastorates in Lawrence and Boston, Mass., he became pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Chicago, and remained there more than fourteen years. In 1893 he organized and was the president of the World's Parliament of Religions. In 1896 he resigned his Chicago pastorate and went to India, where he lectured in an institution endowed by Mrs. Caroline E. Haskell. Returning to the United States, he lectured in the Union Theological Seminary in 1898, and in November of that year became president of Oberlin College. He is author of History of the Parliament of Religions; Life of Henry Ward Beecher; Christianity the World Religion; The World Pilgrimage, etc. Barry, JOHN, naval officer; born in Tacumshane, Wexford co., Ireland, in 1745. He went to sea while he was very young, became the commander of a ship, and gained considerable wealth. In February, 1776, he was appointed by Congress to command the Lexington, fourteen guns, which, after a sharp action, captured the tender Edward. This was the first Barron, SAMUEL, naval officer; was born in Hampton, Va., about 1763; brother of James. He, like his brother, had a training in the navy under his father. In 1798 he commanded the Augusta, prepared by the citizens of Norfolk to resist the aggressions of the French. He took a conspicuous part in the war with Tripoli, and in 1805 he commanded a squadron of ten vessels, with the President as the flag-ship. He assisted in the capture of the Tripolitan town of Derné, April 27, 1805. Barron soon afterwards relinquished his command to Capt. John Rodgers, and on account of ill health returned to the United States. He died Oct. 29, 1810. vessel captured by a commissioned offiBarrows, JOHN HENRY, clergyman: cer of the United States navy. Barry JOHN BARRY. was transferred to the frigate Effingham; navy in 1794, Barry was named the senand in the Delaware, at the head of four ior officer. He superintended the buildboats, he captured an English schooner, ing of the frigate United States, to the command of which he was assigned, but never entered upon the duty. He died in Philadelphia, Sept. 13, 1803. COMMODORE BARRY'S MONUMENT. in 1777, without the loss of a man. He was publicly thanked by Washington. When Howe took Philadelphia, late in 1777, Barry took the Effingham up the Delaware with the hope of saving her, but she was burned by the British. Howe had offered him a large bribe if he would deliver the ship to him at Philadelphia, but it was scornfully rejected. Barry took command of the Raleigh, 32, in September, 1778, but British cruisers compelled him to run her ashore in Penobscot Bay. In the frigate Alliance, in 1781, he sailed for France with Col. John Laurens, who was sent on a special mission; and afterwards he cruised successfully with that ship. At the close of May he captured the Atlanta and Tres pass, after a severe fight. Returning in October, the Alliance was refitted, and, after taking Lafayette and the Count de Noailles to Bartholdi, FREDERIC AUGUSTE, French sculptor; born in Colmar, Alsace, April 2, 1834; received the Cross of the Legion of Honor in 1865, and is best known in the United States by his colossal statue in New York Harbor, entitled Liberty Enlightening the World. His other works include a statue of Lafayette in Union Square, New York, and a bronze group of Lafayette and Washington, presented by American citizens to the city of Paris, and unveiled Dec. 1, 1895. Soon after the establishment of the republic of France, in 1870, a movement was inaugurated in that country for the presentation to the United States of some suitable memorial to testify to the fraternal feeling existing between the two countries. In 1874 an association, known as the French-American Union, was form FRÉDÉRIC AUGUSTE BARTHOLDI. France, Barry cruised in the West Indies ed for the furtherance of this object, and very successfully until May, 1782. the reorganization of the United I. T After most of the foremost men of France lent 289 work of iron. First, a life-size clay from one to three yards square, and statue after the design was made, then weighing in all 88 tons. These form the three plaster statues, the first one-six- outside of the statue. When this was teenth, the second one fourth the size complete, the iron frame work or skelof the complete work, and the third eton was formed on which the outer its full size, the last-named being made copper shell could be fastened. The right hand and torch of this remarkable statue elaborate scientific observations; but, were shown at the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia in 1876. The head was shown at the Paris Exposition in 1879. On July 4, 1880, the statue was formally delivered to the United States through its representative, the American minister at Paris. Bedloe's Island, in New York Harbor, but lying within the boundaries of New Jersey, was selected by the government as a suitable place for its erection, and money was raised by means of subscriptions, concerts, etc., to build a pedestal for it to rest upon. On Oct. 28, 1886, the statue was unveiled in the presence of distinguished represent atives of France and the United States, and was formally dedicated with imposing ceremonies. The statue represents the Goddess of Liberty holding aloft a torch with which she enlightens the world. The height of the statue from the base to the torch is 151 feet 1 inch. From the foundation of the pedestal to the torch it is 305 feet 6 inches. The figure weighs 450,000 pounds, or 225 tons, and contains 100 tons of bronze. Forty persons can stand comfortably in the head, and the torch will hold twelve people. Bartlett, JOHN, author: born in Plymouth, Mass., June 14, 1820; became a pub lisher in Cambridge. In 1862-63 he was a volunteer paymaster in the United States navy. He is best known for his Familiar Quotations; The Shakspeare Inder; and The Complete Concordance to Shakspeare. owing to a failure of Congress to make the necessary appropriations, he did not complete his work. He published a personal narrative of his experience in that region in 1854. In May, 1855, he was chosen secretary of state of Rhode Island, which post he held until 1872, a period of seventeen years. He edited and published the Records of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, in 10 volumes; also an Index to the Acts and Resolves of the General Assembly of Rhode Island from 1758 to 1862. In 1847 Mr. Bartlett published a little volume on the Progress of Ethnology; and in 1848 a Dictionary of Americanisms, since revised and enlarged. He also published a Bibli ography of Rhode Island; Literature of the Rebellion: Memoirs of Rhode Island Men; Primeval Man, and several other works. He died in Providence, R. I., May 28, 1886. Bartlett, JOSIAH, a signer of the Declaration of Independence; born in Amesbury, Mass., Nov. 21, 1729; educated in a common school and taught the science of medicine by a practitioner in his native town, he began practice in Kingston, N. H., in 1750, and soon became eminent. He was a member of the New Hampshire legislature from 1765 until the breaking out of the War of the Revolution. In 1770 he was appointed by the royal gov ernor lieutenant-colonel of the militia, but on account of his patriotic tendencies he was deprived of the office in 1775. He Bartlett, JOHN RUSSELL, author; born was a member of the committee of in Providence, R. I., Oct. 23, 1805. He safety, upon whom for a time devolved was for six years cashier of the Globe the whole executive power of the governBank in Providence, and an active mem- ment of the State. A delegate to Congress ber of the Franklin Society for the Cul- in 1775-76, he was the first to give his tivation of Science. He was also one vote for the Declaration of Independence, of the projectors of the Athenæum in and its first signer after the President Providence, and for some time correspond of Congress. He was with Stark in the ing secretary of the New York Historical Kennington campaign (see BENNINGTON, Society. Mr. Bartlett was associated with BATTLE OF), in 1777, as agent of the Albert Gallatin as a projector and founder State to provide medicine and other necesof the American Ethnological Society. In saries for the New Hampshire troops. In 1850 he was appointed by President Tay- Congress again in 1778, he was active in lor a commissioner, under the treaty of committee duties; and in 1779 he was peace with Mexico in 1848, to settle the appointed chief-justice of the Common boundary line between that country and Pleas in his State. In 1782 he was a the United States. He was engaged in judge of the Superior Court of New that service until Jan. 7, 1853, making Hampshire, and chief-justice in 1788. extensive surveys and explorations, with Judge Bartlett retired from public life in 1794, on account of feeble health, hav- charge by President Lincoln of the search ing been president of the State from 1790 organized to find missing Union soldiers, to 1793, and, under the new constitution, and in 1865 went to Andersonville to governor in 1793. He was the chief mark the graves of Northern soldiers who founder and the president of the New had died there. When the Franco-PrusHampshire Medical Society, and received sian War broke out (1870), she assisted the honorary degree of M.D. from Dart- in preparing military hospitals, and also mouth College. He died May 19, 1795. aided the Red Cross Society. In 1871, Bartlett, WILLIAM FRANCIS, military after the siege of Strasburg, she superinofficer; born in Haverhill, Mass., Jan. 6, tended, by request of the authorities, the 1840; was graduated at Harvard in 1862. distribution of work to the poor, and in He entered the volunteer army as cap- 1872 performed a similar work in Paris. tain in the summer of 1861; was engaged For her services she was decorated with in the battle of BALL'S BLUFF (q. c.), the Golden Cross of Baden and the Iron and lost a leg in the siege of Yorktown in Cross of Germany. In 1881, when the 1862. He was made colonel of a Massa- American Red Cross Society was formed, chusetts regiment in November, 1862, and she was made its president, and as such took part in the capture of Port Hudson in 1884 directed the measures to aid the in 1863. In the siege of Petersburg sufferers by the Mississippi and Ohio (1864) he commanded a division of the floods. In 1883 she was made the super9th Corps, and at the explosion of the intendent, steward, and treasurer of the mine there he was made prisoner, but Reformatory Prison for Women, at Sherexchanged in September. In 1865 he was born, Mass., and in the same year was brevetted major-general of volunteers. special commissioner of foreign exhibits He died in Pittsfield, Mass., Dec. 17, at the New Orleans Exposition. In 1884 1876. she was a delegate of the United States to the Red Cross Conference, and also to the International Peace Conference, both held in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1889 she directed the movements for the relief of the sufferers by the flood at Johnstown, Pa., and in 1896 went to Armenia and personally managed the relief measures. Prior to the war with Spain she carried supplies to the reconcentrados of Cuba, at the request of President McKinley, and was also active during the war in army relief work. In 1900, after the Galveston disaster, she directed the movement for the relief of the sufferers, till her health failed. She is author of History of the Red Cross; and History of the Red Cross in Peace and War. Barton, CLARA, philanthropist; born in Oxford, Mass., in 1830; was educated in Clinton, N. Y. Her early life was devoted to teaching. In 1854 she became a clerk in the Patent Office in Washington, resigning in 1861, and undertaking the CLARA BARTON. nursing of sick and wounded soldiers of the army. In 1864 General Butler made her head nurse of the hospitals in the Army of the James. Later she was given Barton, WILLIAM, military officer; born in Warren, R. I., May 26, 1784. Holding the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the Rhode Island militia, he, with a small party, crossed Narraganset Bay in the night (July 10, 1777) and seized and carried away the British General Prescott (see PRESCOTT, RICHARD). For this service Congress gave him a sword and a commission of colonel in the Continental army. He was wounded at Bristol Ferry in August, 1778, and was disabled from |