BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Paul Adams, "Amelia Barr in Texas, 1856-1868," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 49 (January 1946).
Amelia Edith Barr Papers, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin.
Hildegarde Hawthorne, "Amelia E. Barr–Some Recollections," Bookman, May 1920. M. N. Howard, The Novels of Amelia Barr (M.A. thesis, University of Texas, 1943).
Kate Dickinson Sweetser, "Amelia Barr and the Novice," Bookman, October 1923.
AMELIA EDITH HUDDLESTON BARR
(1831-1919)
Born: 29 March 1831 in Ulverston, Lancashire, England.
Mother: Mary Singleton (c.1806–c.1858)
Father: Reverend Dr. William Henry Huddleston (d. c.1863), a Methodist minister.
BARR, AMELIA EDITH HUDDLESTON (1831-1919). Amelia Barr, writer, daughter of William Henry and Mary (Singleton) Huddleston, was born in Ulverston, Lancashire, England, on March 29, 1831. Her father was a Methodist minister. She was educated in music and literature and taught in a girls' school before she married Robert Barr, an accountant, of Glasgow. After Barr lost his fortune, the couple sailed for America. They lived briefly in Chicago and Memphis and in 1856 settled in Austin, Texas, where Barr found employment as an auditor for the state of Texas.
Mrs. Barr died in New York on March 10, 1919, and was buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.
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Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
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