Stanchfield
JOHN BARRY, an American lawyer and public official, born in Elmira, N. Y., in 1855. He graduated from Amherst College in 1876 and from Harvard Law School in the following year. In 1878 he was admitted to the bar and practiced at Elmira from 1878 to 1900. During a part of the time he was a partner of David Bennett Hill.
From 1885 to 1905 he was a member of the firm of Reynolds, Stanchfield & Collin, New York. His political career included service as mayor of Elmira from 1886 to 1888, and as assemblyman in 1895-6. In 1900 he was Democratic candidate for governor of New York and in 1901 was Democratic nominee for United States senator. He was one of