KENTUCKY: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin & Kniffin, 4th ed., 1887
Marion Co.

JOHN BARR, merchant and manufacturer, was born in Liverpool, England,
February 5, 1843, and when yet an infant came with his parents, John and
Bridget Barr, to the United States.  His father was a merchant tailor, and
located in Louisville, where he engaged in that calling, and where our
subject was chiefly educated.  When he was about twelve years old his
parents died, and for the six years next following he was learning the
trade of carriage-maker in McLean County.  Just after the completion of his
trade (1861) he entered the Federal Army as drum major of the Seventeenth
Kentucky Regiment.  He was wounded at the battle of Shiloh, in consequence
of which he received his discharge in December, 1862.  He then located in
Lebanon, Marion County, his present home, where for several years he
engaged as contractor and builder, and in 1879 became a member of the firm
of Lanham & Barr, which still continues.  Mr. Barr has served one term as
mayor of Lebanon, and in 1883 was made the supreme secretary of the
Catholic Knights for the United States.  In 1866 he was married in Lebanon
to Miss Marietta Mitchell, daughter of George Mitchell.  She died in 1873,
and in the year 1875 he was married to Miss Anna Johnson, who died in 1876.
His present wife, to whom he was married in 1877, was Anna Mitchell, a
younger sister of his former wife.  As a result of this latter marriage he
has four children, viz.: Thomas J., Joseph, John G. and Mary A. Barr.

Barr Lanham Mitchell Johnson
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McLean-KY England

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