Samuel Fleming Barr

Republican Representative of Pennsylvania's 14th district

Congresses Served

House Terms

January 1, 1829 (90 years old)

Birthday

January 1, 1919

Death

Immigrated to the United States from Ireland in 1831
Settled in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania with his parents
Attended common schools
Worked as a freight agent for the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad in 1855 and 1856
Employed on government railways during the early United States Civil War in and around Washington, D.C.
Served as editor of the Harrisburg Telegraph from 1873 to 1878
Elected as a Republican to the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses
Declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1884
Retired and spent winters in San Diego, California, and summers in Seal Harbor, Maine
Died in San Diego in 1919
Buried in Odd Fellows Cemetery