Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 8th ed., 1888,
Jefferson Co.

HON. JOHN WATSON BARR, Judge of the United States District Court for the
district of Kentucky, comes of an old Kentucky family--his grandfather
Barr, a native of Maryland, having emigrated to Kentucky in 1787, and
settled in Fayette County.  The family is of English origin, but came to
America prior to the Revolutionary.  John W. was born in Versailles, Ky.,
December 17, 1826, and is a son of William and Ann (Watson) Barr, the
former a native of Fayette County and the latter of Woodford County.  He
was educated at schools in his native county and at Lexington.  Having
read law, he graduated from the law department of Transylvania University,
at Lexington, in 1847, and commenced practice at Versailles, where he
remained until 1854.  He then came to Louisville, and soon attained to a
large business.  He devoted himself wholly to his profession, eschewing
politics in toto, until 1880, when he was appointed United States District
Judge, a position he still acceptably fills.  During the late civil war
he was an unconditional Union man, and was a member of the State Central
Committee of the Union party.  Since the war he has been identified with
the Republican party, and is zealous in that faith.  He was married in
November, 1859, to Miss Susan Rogers, daughter of Jason Rogers,
lieutenant-colonel of the Louisville Legion in the Mexican war, and a
native of New York.

Barr Watson Rogers
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Fayette-KY Versailles-Woodford-KY MD

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