[p. 958] who enjoys a large and lucrative medical practice at New Wilmington, is a worthy representative of a profession which numbers many eminent men in its ranks in Lawrence County. Dr. Barr was born December 4, 1871, in Gujoanwalla, India, and is a son of Rev. James S. and Mary (Black) Barr.
Rev. James Barr was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and is a son of John and Elizabeth (Smith) Barr, and a grandson of John and Rebecca (Lawrence) Barr. The grandparents of Rev. James S. Barr were natives of County Down, Ireland, and their coming to America was the result of an elopement and marriage against the wishes of unsympathetic parents. They founded the Barr family in Washington County.
Dr. Barr was born while his father was fulfilling his duties as a missionary in India. He is one of a family of ten children—John Lawrence, William M., James D., Elizabeth Emma, Frances E., Theodora, Herbert E., Margaret Ethel, Howard Adelfred and Mary Edith. Four members of this family are deceased. Dr. Barr lived in India until he was twelve years of age, and he owes his early education to the patient care of a beloved mother, who so carefully trained him that when the family had returned to Pennsylvania he was prepared to enter the preparatory department of Westminster College, although then but fourteen years old. He remained at this institution until he graduated and later took a special medical course at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, and was fiinally graduated at the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. He immediately established his residence at New Wilmington and here has made both professional and personal friends. With his family he belongs to the United Presbyterian Church. His handsome home is a two-story structure standing oposite the postoffice on Main Street.
20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
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