BIO:  BARR:  James M., s/o John & Julie (Burriss) Barr

Submitted by:  phill@redrock.net   (Phyllis Hill)

BARR   BURRISS   ALLEN   GILLICK

History of Knox and Daviess Counties, Indiana
Chicago:  The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1886

Daviess County, Washington Twp., page 747

JAMES M. BARR, attorney at law, Washington, Ind., was born in Reeves Township,
Daviess County, October 27, 1841, and is one of a family of three sons and
four daughters born to John and Julie (Burriss) Barr, both natives of
Kentucky.  The father came to this county with his father, James Barr, when
he was a lad of eight years, in about 1816, and located in what is now Barr
Township, where the father and grandfather of the subject of this sketch
spent the greater part of their lives.  James M. Barr was raised on the
farm with his parents, securing a fair education in the common branches.
In 1862 he enlisted in Company D., Eightieth Regiment Indiana Volunteer
Infantry, and served in the civil war three years as a private and non-
commissioned officer.  At the close of the war he returned home and followed
the life of a farmer until 1880, in Reeve Township, in the meantime studying
law.  In the year last named he moved to Washington, and being admitted to
the Daviess County bar in 1881, has since been engaged in the practice of the
law, meeting with very encouraging success.  Mr. Barr is a stanch Republican,
and served in Reeve Township as justice of the peace four years.  He is a 
member of the G.A.R.  He was married in December, 1866, to Martha Allen,
a native of Daviess County.  They have four children:  Ora May, Minnie,
Allen, and Eva.  Both Mr. and Mrs. Barr are members of the Presbyterian 
Church.  John Barr, the father of the subject of this sketch, became a
resident of Reeve Township, where he bought a tract of land, which he
cleared and improved, undergoing all kinds of hardships in the meantime.
He led a long, useful and honorable life, dying in February, 1885.  Mrs.
Barr died when James M. was a mere child, and John Barr subsequently married
Lucy Gillick, who died about six years since, leaving one child--a son.
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