Background
Samuel F. Barr was born near Coleraine, County Antrim, Ireland.
United States representative politician
Samuel F. Barr was born near Coleraine, County Antrim, Ireland.
He attended the common schools, and worked as a freight agent of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad in 1855 and 1856.
Early in the United States Civil War was employed upon government railways in and about Washington, District of Columbia He worked as editor of the Harrisburg Telegraph from 1873 to 1878. Barr was elected as a Republican to the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1884.
He retired, spending winters in San Diego, California, and summers in Seal Harbor, Maine.
He died in San Diego in 1919. Interment in Odd Fellows Cemetery.