| |
The Reverend Doctor
Dixon A. Barr
1932 - 2009
The Rev. Dr. Dixon A. Barr, a native of Crown Point,
Indiana, is the son of Harold Standish Barr and Matilda
Henning. He was married first to the late Charlotte Louise
Van Deren, and then to Frances Fairfax Keller Barr. Dr.
Barr was survived by his wife and three children: Edward Standish Barr, John
McKee Barr, and Elizabeth Barr Masters (Mrs. James Brent),
as well as four grandchildren.
Dr. Barr completed his undergraduate work at
Ball State University,
and later received a master's degree and doctorate from
Columbia University. He
had further theological education at
St. George's College Jerusalem,
the
University of the South,
and
Lexington Theological Seminary.
Dr. Barr, now retired, was an ordained Episcopal priest
and Canon of Christ Church Cathedral in Lexington, KY.
Memberships
* Society of the Cincinnati in the State of
Delaware
* General Society of Colonial Wars (former Historian
General and life member
of the Council)
* National Gavel Society
* General Society of Mayflower Descendants (former
Governor of the
Kentucky Society and former Executive Committee Member at Large,
General Society)
* The Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial
Governors (Honorary
Governor General)
* National Society Sons of Colonial New England (former
Governor General)
* Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry (Honorary
President General)
* National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims
(Honorary Governor
General)
* The National Huguenot Society (Honorary President General)
* Order of the First Families of Maine (President General)
* Dutch Colonial Society of Delaware (President)
* Colonial Order of the Acorn
* Order of Lafayette
* General Society of the War of 1812
* Order of the First Families of Rhode Island and
Providence Plantations
* National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
* General Society Sons of the Revolution
* Order of Founders and Patriots of America
* Presidential Families of America
* Society of Descendants of the Colonial Clergy
* Order of Descendants of Colonial Physicians and
Chirurgiens
* National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum
Planters l607-l86l
* Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench
& Bar l565-l86l
* Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts
* National Society Descendants of Early Quakers
* Society of Indiana Pioneers
* North American Manx Association (Life Member)
* St. Andrew's Society of the State of New York
* Hereditary Order of Descendants of the Loyalists and
Patriots of the
American Revolution
* The Hereditary Society of the Founders of Manakin in the
Colony of
Virginia (Associate Member)
* First Families of Georgia, l733-l797 (Associate Member)
* The Society of the Friends of St. George's Chapel,
Windsor Castle (Life
Member)
* Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesman 1607-1783
* National Order of the Blue and Gray
* First Families of Kentucky (Chaplain General)
* Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States
(Associate
Member)
Chivalric Orders
The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of
Jerusalem (Officer)
Listed In
Who's Who in American Genealogy and Heraldry Vol. I
Presidents and Deans of American Colleges and Universities
1966-67
Kentucky Lives
Life in the Bluegrass
Other Notes
Dr. Barr is a lecturer and teacher at National
Genealogical Society conferences in the United States, as
well as at other genealogical and hereditary societies.
He is a life member of the Filson Historical Society, the
Kentucky Historical Society, the National Genealogical
Society, and the Kentucky Genealogical Society.
|
