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PATRICK BARRY. 



T^ATRICK BARRY, one of the most widely known and highly respected 

 Ito citizens of Rochester, expired June 23rd, at eight o'clock a.m., at his 

 residence on Mt. Hope Avenue. He had been ailing for over a year? 

 and the final collapse was due to a complication of causes. His death was 

 painless, and he was surrounded by his family in his last moments. 



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Mr. Barry was the son of a farmer, and was born in Belfast, Ireland, 

 May 24, 1 816. He received a liberal education, and at the age of eighteen 

 became a teacher in one of the Irish National schools. He taught for 

 two years and then resolved to make the new world his home. He came to 

 New York in 1836, and in his twentieth year became a clerk in the Linnaean 



