BIOGRAPHIES:  Hon. James BARRY, Pepin, Pepin Co., WI

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Submitted by Nance Sampson, Pepin Co. Archives File Manager on 19 November 2004
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HON. JAMES BARRY, Pepin, was born in County Derry, Ireland, in March,
1812. His father, William Barry, and his mother, Elizabeth, (Duncan)
Barry, were both of Scotch parentage. He came to the United States in
1828, and went to Pittsburgh, Pa.; learned there the trade of wagon
making, and continued to reside there until 1856, when he came to
Pepin, and the next year moved his family here. He was married, Jan.
22, 1836, to Miss Elizabeth Porter, of Pittsburgh, Pa. They have five
children-Eliza (Mrs. John McCain) of Lakeport; William, in Montana;
Anna, Amanda, Mrs. Solomon Fuller, James H. Mr. Barry was Justice of
the Peace in Pittsburgh, Pa. Has been Chairman of the Town Board of
Pepin three years, and member of the County Board of Supervisors; also
member of the Assembly in 1878. He is a member of the United
Presbyterian Church.

-Transcribed from the "History of Northern Wisconsin, 1881," page 704


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