CLASS OF 1863

Dr. William Richardson Barker was born at Chester, N. H., August 10, 1827, and died in Maiden, Mass., June 28, 1918. His parents were Dr. Lemuel Maxcy and Sarah Merchant (Richardson) Barker, his father being a Dartmouth medical graduate of 1824.

It has been impossible to obtain any details of his long life, beyond the fact that in 1843 he was a page at the White House in the administration of President Tyler, that after his graduation he practiced with his father for a time, and was later a railway mail clerk. A widow and a daughter survive him.