Obituaries: ROBERT BARBOUR: Pittsburgh, 1932 Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Norm Meinert, December 1999. njm1@ghplus.infi.net --------------------------------------------------------------------------- USGENWEB NOTICE: Printing this file by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Barbour's obituary appears on page 21 of the Tuesday, December 13, 1932 edition of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Robert's obituary confirms that he died on December 10, 1932 and that he was the husband of (Mary McAdams Barbour.) Of far more interest is the article that appeared in the December Issue of Greater Pittsburgh magazine: ------------------ Death Of Robert W. Barbour Robert W. Barbour, field representative of the Chamber of Commerce and friend of practically every business man in Pittsburgh, died suddenly last Saturday, December 10th, in his home at 5637 Rippey Street. He was stricken at the corner of Wood Street and Fifth Avenue about eleven o'clock in the morning; and Daniel Dwyer, a former member of the Chamber, recognized him as one of the Chamber's staff and brought him to the office, from whence he was rushed by ambulance to his home. There he passed way less than an hour later. Bob "as everybody affectionately called him" had apparently been in good health when he left the office to make a business call, and his associates all cherish, as their last words with him, some jovial remark. That is as it should be, since Bob was one of the best-natured men and one of the most respected who ever trod Pittsburgh streets. No one can say with regret, "I wish he had not spoken that way to me!" Mr. Barbour was born in Franklin, Pennsylvania, May 7, 1870, from which his parents moved to Philadelphia. When he was seventeen years of age he came to Pittsburgh. On April 30, 1910, Bob entered the employ of the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce and soon became Assistant Secretary, remaining in that position until February 28, 1918, when he went to Wellsville, Ohio, as secretary of the Chamber of Commerce there. Later he returned to fill a similar position in the Pittsburgh Board of Trade (now the East Liberty Chamber of Commerce); but in June, 1922, he again joined the staff of the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce as Field representative, in which capacity he met most of the business men of the city and made innumerable friends. --------------- NOTES: Robert W. Barbour was married to Mary Scott McAdams, daughter of Robert and Margaret Scott Craig McAdams. Mary had two brothers, Robert C. and William McAdams, and three sisters, Agnes [who married George Lysinger], Helen [who married John J. Rankin] and Rebecca Keating McAdams who never married. Robert's in-laws, Margaret and Robert McAdams are buried with Rebecca Keating McAdams and George and Agnes Lysinger in Section 7 lot 50 Homewood Cemetery. Source: Article appeared on page 24 of Greater Pittsburgh; Official Organ of the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce, Vol. XIV, No. 8, December 1932. ========================================================================== Robert Barbour's marriage to Mary Scott McAdams appears in the Allegheny County Marriage License Docket, Volume 70, 1904-1906, page 39. Robert Wilson Barbour lists his residence as 830 N. St. Clair St., Pittsburgh PA. He lists his occupation as Book keeper He lists one previous marriage dissolved by death. In the 1920 Census, the Barbours appear in Allegheny County ED 60 page 2, Chartiers Township Precinct 8. Robert and Mary are living at Oakwood Road with daughter Marian, 9 at the time. Contributor: Nancy McAdams , Nov 12, 1999