Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Barr, Hon Richard J 
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Author: Past & Present, 1907

Hon. Richard J. Barr, mayor of Joliet, was born in Manhattan township, Will 
county, Illinois, November 28, 1865. He attended the country schools and the 
Joliet high school and subsequently engaged in teaching in the Milton Center 
and Manhattan schools in Will county for three years. He spent four years as a 
student in the University of Illinois and two years as a student in the 
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, being graduated from the latter 
institution with the degree of Bachelor of Law on the 27th of June, 1895. He 
at once entered upon law practice in the office of Flanders & Shutts at 
Joliet. He practiced for a time as a partner of Eneshia Meers and is now a 
member of the firm of Barr Brothers. Mr. Barr has served for one terms as city 
attorney of Joliet and for two terms as mayor, being the incumbent in the 
latter position at the present time. He is a prominent republican in politics 
and is now serving his second term as state senator, representing the forty-
first district, which comprise Will and DuPage counties. He was married to 
Miss Mary C. Dougall, November 20, 1906. 

Additional Comments:
Past and Present of Will County, Illinois, by W. W. Stevens, President of the 
Will County Pioneers Association. Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing 
Company, 1907.

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