Bios: HERBERT E. BARR, M. D., 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens
  
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      HERBERT E. BARR, M. D.,
  
  [p. 958] who enjoys a large and lucrative medical practice at New
  Wilmington, is a worthy representative of a profession which numbers
  many eminent men in its ranks in Lawrence County. Dr. Barr was born
  December 4, 1871, in Gujoanwalla, India, and is a son of Rev. James S.
  and Mary (Black) Barr.
  
  Rev. James Barr was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and is a
  son of John and Elizabeth (Smith) Barr, and a grandson of John and
  Rebecca (Lawrence) Barr. The grandparents of Rev. James S. Barr were
  natives of County Down, Ireland, and their coming to America was the
  result of an elopement and marriage against the wishes of unsympathetic
  parents. They founded the Barr family in Washington County.
  
  Dr. Barr was born while his father was fulfilling his duties as a
  missionary in India. He is one of a family of ten children?John
  Lawrence, William M., James D., Elizabeth Emma, Frances E., Theodora,
  Herbert E., Margaret Ethel, Howard Adelfred and Mary Edith. Four members
  of this family are deceased. Dr. Barr lived in India until he was twelve
  years of age, and he owes his early education to the patient care of a
  beloved mother, who so carefully trained him that when the family had
  returned to Pennsylvania he was prepared to enter the preparatory
  department of Westminster College, although then but fourteen years old.
  He remained at this institution until he graduated and later took a
  special medical course at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, and
  was fiinally graduated at the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia.
  He immediately established his residence at New Wilmington and here has
  made both professional and personal friends. With his family he belongs
  to the United Presbyterian Church. His handsome home is a two-story
  structure standing oposite the postoffice on Main Street.
  
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  20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and
  Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing
  Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
  
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  Updated: 8 Feb 2002