Sacramento Valley Biographies

JAMES HOLMES BARR, M. D.

Transcribed by Sally Kaleta, August 2009.

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm


 
        James Holmes Barr, M. D., was born in Glasgow, Scotland, June 22,
1858, the oldest of four children born to his parents, James and Barbara
(Shaw) Barr, both natives of Scotland. Living in Glasgow until his
thirteenth year, in 1871, Dr. Barr came to America, settling in Rockford,
Ill. There he attended the public schools, and in 1877, went to Beatrice,
Neb., where he lived until 1881. Returning to Rockford in the fall of 1887
entered the Chicago Medical College, from which he was graduated in the
class of 1890. Locating in Rockford, he engaged in practice until 1891, when
he went to Oregon, being located there for two years. In 1893 he came to
Marysville, Cal., where he opened an office and started a general practice
of medicine and surgery.

      Dr. Barr is a Republican in politics. He is a member and president of
the Yuba and Sutter Counties Medical Society, a member of the California
Northern District Medical Society, and the State Medical Society.
Fraternally he is associated with Yuba Lodge No. 39, F. & A. M., Washington
Chapter No. 13, R. A. M., Marysville Commandery No. 7, K. T., the Scottish
Rite Consistory of Oakland, Cal., and with Islam Temple N. M. S. The doctor
married, in Marysville, Hedwick T. Ebert, a native of California, and they
have one daughter, Hedwick Barbara.

"History of the State of California and Biographical Record of the
Sacramento Valley, Cal.," J. M. Guinn, The Chapman Publishing Company,
Chicago, 1906,  Page 986.