Biography

11/01/1817 - 05/04/1886

BARRY, Dr. William A., a Representative from Lebanon County; born, November 1, 1817 in Boston, Suffolk County, Ma.; M.D., Jefferson Medical College (now Sidney Kimmel Medical College), Philadelphia; surgeon, 75th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1863-1864, Civil War); surgeon, 98th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1864, Civil War); physician; elected as a Democrat American to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1854; reelected to the House as a Republican in 1855; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1856); justice of the peace, Jonestown (1867-1872); burgess, Jonestown (1883); died, May 4, 1886 in Lebanon, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; interred, Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania.