The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-14
Edward Ware Barrett

Columbus Ledger: News of the untimely death of Edward ". Barrett, editor of the Bir- mingham Age-Herald, is noted with genuine sorrow and regret, particularly in Georgia, where the notable career of the deceased was begun.
 For 25 years MT. Barrett has been editoc and publisher of The Age-Herald. He started life many years ago on the Augusta Chronicle and was co-worker with John s. Cohen, now publisher of the Atlanta Journal; Pleasant A. Stoval of the Savannah Press and Frank H. Miller, editor and owner of the Montgomery Journal. The Chronicle at that time was pub ished by the late Patrick Walsh, from whose training so many have gone out &C., lively in the newspaper field.
 MT. Barrett next went ot Washington, where he was correspondent of the Atlanta Consti- tuition, and was afterwards secretary to Speak CT Crisp, whose lifelong friend he was. He was 56 years of age and leader in the south ern journalistic field.
 MT. Barrett last year was elected member of the national democratic committee from Alabama. He was brother of Thomas Bar rett of Augusta and cousin of Judge William H. Barrett. By the way, the influence of Ed Barrett and Senator Underwood could be seen in the excellent nomination to the United States district court which President Harding gave a few weeks ago for the southern district of Georgia.
 Editor Barrett is dead, but his splendid life work and far-reaching influence will long live
 Houston Post The highest type of southern Journalism loses one of it's noblest exemplars in the sudden passing at Birmingham Sunday night of Edward W. Barrett, the editor and proprietor of the Birmingham Age-Herald.
 MT. Barrett made The Age-Herald one of the great, outstanding daily publications of the entire south. Clean, constructive, aggres- sive, The Age-Herald has long been one of the influential factors in Alabama, and Mir. Barrett was looked upon as one of the most distinguished and useful citizens of the state.
 Under his administration The Age Herald, while not sectional partisan, has stood out as one of the strongest champions of the n- terests of its state and of the south He has been one of the foremost advocates of the development of southern resources, and in many ways showed his faith in this section by his works, notable example being when few months ago he had experiments conducted with Alabama spruce pine to show that good
 
 made right at home.
 Within the recent past Mir. Barrett had made extensive improvements in The Age-Herald, which greatly increased the quality and quan- tity of service of the paper to its city and state. In Birmingham he will be sorely missed in all those circles devoted to the moral and material upbuilding of the city.
 Macon News: Announcement of the death of E. w. Barrett, for 25 years editor and pro- prietor of the Birmingham Age Herald, brings genuine sadness to a large circle of friends, not only in newspaper and political circles, but in every walk of life.
 MT. Barrett was man of whom Georgia had every reason to be proud. He was bora in Athens in 1866. After studying at histor- ical old Richmond academy in Augusta he took four-year course in civil engineering at Washington and Lee university. But the call of newspaper work was strong within him. He began his career as a printer on the-Au- gusta Chronicle, under the late Patrick Walsh, and rose to the position of city editor. One of his first pieces of work to attract attention was when he "covered" the Charleston earth quake in 1886. The. memorable tremor did a great deal of damage even in the western part of South Carolina and young Barrett, starting out on foot while there was still req