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John Watson Barr (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney)

b. 1826-12-17 d. 1907-12-31

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney. Woodford County, Kentucky, native. Son of William Barr and Ann Watson Barr. Married to Susan Rogers Barr in Louisville, Kentucky, November 23, 1859. Father of John W. Barr, Jr., Anna W. Barr, and Caroline H. Barr. Graduated from the law school of Transylvania University in Lexington in 1847. Attorney in Woodford County in 1850. Attorney in partnership with Joseph B. Kinkead. Attorney in Louisville in 1860. Attorney in partnership with John Kemp Goodloe from 1864 to 1868.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Woodford County, District 1, p. 418A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 6, p. 353.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000819611.

H. Levin, The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1897), 159-60.

Biographical Cyclopedia of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: Embracing Biographies of Many of the Prominent Men of the State (Chicago: John M. Gresham Company, 1896), 37-38.

“Death of Judge Barr,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), January 1, 1908, p. 4.

"Judge John Watson Barr (1826-1907)," Find A Grave, Memorial 6589279, accessed April 14, 2020, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6589279.

Citation

Barr, John Watson. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32196671 (November 12, 2026).

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