Daily Baptist Encyclopedia Barre, W. L., author and editor, was born in Warren Co., Ky.,

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Admin  · 2h  · Daily Baptist Encyclopedia Barre, W. L., author and editor, was born in Warren Co., Ky., July 18, 1830. He was educated at Franklin College, Tennessee. In early life he became a Baptist, and was licensed as a preacher, although he seldom occupied the pulpit, preferring literary work to pastoral labors. He has been con- nected, as principal or associate editor, with the Louisville Journal, Louisville Courier, Cincinnati Times, Cincinnati Gazette, Nashville Union and Dispatch, the Memphis Daily Dispatch, and the St. Joseph (Mo.) Daily Commercial. In 1857 he removed to Cincinnati, where he remained nearly three years, and during this period wrote and pub- lished “ Lives of Illustrious Men of America,” a book of 1000 octavo pages, which passed through 11 editions. He wrote (in 1856) the ‘Life and Public Services of Millard Fillmore,’ and edited the “ Speeches and Writings of Hon. Thomas F. Marshall,’ which passed through ten editions. During the civil war he was army correspondent of the New York Times and other leading journals. After the war he was engaged on various news- papers in several different States until 1873, when he became editor of the Green River Pantagraph.From the Baptist Encyclopedia by William Cathcart