The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-02-28
DEATH CLAIMS
ALBERT ]. BARR
Stricken At Club, Passes Away
Almost Instantly.
LONG PROMINENT PUBLISHER
Was Striking Figure in Pittsburgh
Newspaper and Business Circles.
AS Associated Press Director
Known the Country over.

Pittsburgh, Pa.-Albert j. Barr, for
many years president of the Post
Publishing Company, and during the
last year a member of the Allegheny
County Board of Viewers, died sud
denly Saturday morning at the Du-
quesne club here. He entered the
lobby of the clubhouse and asked an
attendant for a glass of hot water. A
few minutes after drinking the water
other persons in the club saw Mr..
Barr stagger. They hastened to his
assistance and helped him to a bed
room upstairs where he died before a
physician, who had been summoned,
arrived ApopleXy, believed to
have been brought vn by the strain in
cident TO his business reverses OF a
few years ago, was the cause of his
death.
Mr.. Barr had been a striking figure
in Pittsburgh Newspaper and business
circles. Both as a business man
and as the editor of a newspaper he
was progressive. Assuming control
of the Pittsburgh Post upon the death
of his father, James P. Barr, in 1886,
he developed that journal along mod
ern lines.
Always a staunch Democrat, Mr.
Barr earned the admiration of his fel-
low editors and business men by his
fairness in politics. He was a be-
lever in the doctrine that the ma
jority should rule and bowed smiling
ly to adverse political conditions and
results which were in nowise made
subservienU to the tenets of his party
and the conduct of his newspaper was
dictated by principle rather than by
policy.
A scion of the sturdy band of men
who founded Pittsburgh's greatness,
early in the last century, Mr. Barr was
born January -, 1851, in the section
of Third avenue that is now part OF
the central business district OF the
city. He received his elementary
education in the common schools and
afterward was graduated from the
business department of the Western
University, now the University OF
Pittsburgh For some years he was
engaged in the insurance business,
relinquishing this occupation to take
charge of the Post newspaper proper
ty when his father died
Six years ago Mr.. Barr extended
his publication business by establish
ing the Sun He served for some
time as president of the Artisans In
surance Company and vice president
Of the Mercy Hospital. During the
second Cleveland administration he
served as surveyor of the port of Pitts
burgh, served several years as a trus-
tee of the Carnegie Library and was
one of Pennsylvania commissioners
to the Worlds Columbian Exposition
at Chicago in 1898.
About two years ago Mr.. Barr met
with business reverses and the Post
Publishing Company went into the
hands of a receiver. He remained In
the service OF the receiver until he
was appointed a member of the Coun
ty Board of Viewers.
Mr. Barr's activity in the social
life of the city, in the promotion OF
philanthropic and public spirited
movements, and in numerous other
fields. was such as to make his circle
of friends and associates a very large
one. His re lutation extended, more
over, beyond the confines Of city and
state, his service as a director Of the
Associated Press and his prominence
in the councils of the Democratic par
ty contributing to make him national
ly known.
Amiable, honorable and as demo
cratic in his ways as in his politics,
Albert Y. Barr made many friends and
few enemies. His death is a distinct
loss to the community wherein his life
was spent and his success achieved.