BIO:  George J. Barry, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, historical editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, York Borough, Pg 4

GEORGE J. BARRY, seventh of eleven children of James and Roseanna (McLaughlin) 
Barry, was born October 31, 1846, in York, Penn., and after receiving a common 
school education went to Frederick City, Md., in 1861, to clerk in a store.  
After six years' stay in Frederick he went to Chicago, and thence to Cincinnati, 
where he lived about one year; returned to Frederick after his brother's death 
to accept the position of book-keeper in the packing establishment of L. 
McMurray & Co.  September 2, 1879, our subject married B. V. Carr, daughter of 
John and Susan Carr, of York, Penn.  Three children were born of this marriage:  
Mary, born July 6, 1880; James Howard, born July 21, 1882; and Rose Teresa, born 
January 1, 1888.  Our subject's father, James Barry, was born February 9, 1811, 
in Tullamore, King's Co., Ireland, and came to this country in his eighteenth 
year.  Roseanna (McLaughlin) Barry was born in Dromore, Tyrone Co., Ireland, and 
came to America with her parents when three years old.