Martin Witmer Barr

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1827-10-31

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1911-05-11

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"Martin Witmer Barr" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00017386, (accessed April 28, 2024).

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Jefferson County, Kentucky, telegraph operator and newspaper editor. Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, native. Son of Martin Barr and Susan Miller Barr. Married to Harriet Cornelius Barr in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on March 1, 1855. Father of Martin Potts Barr and William Yancey Barr. Telegraph operator in Louisville in 1850. Newspaper editor in Jefferson County, Kentucky in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, District 2, p. 151B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Ward 5, p. 148.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Washington District, Second Ward, p. 276B.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film #482, p. 709.
"Martin W Barr Dies," The Washington Herald (Washington, D.C.), May 12, 1911, p. 5.
"Martin Witmer Barr (1827-1911)," Find A Grave, Memorial #142058408, accessed April 1, 2022, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/142058408/martin-witmer-barr.

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