Woodrow Wilson's Letter to Almont Barnes: Together with the Article Under Discussion, "the Study of Administration" from the Political Science Quarter (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781508915911)

Almont Barnes was born April 14, 1835, in Turin, Lewis County, N. Y., the son of Harvey Hitchcock Barnes and Betsy Hannah Hubbard. He was educated at St. Lawrence Academy, N. Y. Before becoming Editor of the Vermont Daily Transcript in 1858, Barnes was Editor of the Black River Budget, the Lewis County Banner, and the Lewis County Democrat, all in upstate New York. He was editor of the Banner and lived in Martinburgh, New York, when he married Frances Ellen Palmer of Pierrepont, New York on May 2, 1858. By the summer of 1861 they had two small children, Richmond and Raymond. Later they would have three other children. Barnes volunteered for the Union Army August 6, 1861, and was the principal organizer of the New York 1st Artillery Regiment, Battery C. He served as its Captain for the first three years of the war, being mustered out in October, 1864 on completion of three years' service. Most notable was his service at Gettysburg where he was brevetted to the rank of Colonel. A Stone Sentinel was later erected on the battlefield to honor Capt. Barnes and his men. After the War, Almont Barnes worked as an Enrolling Clerk in the U. S. House of Representatives, earned a law degree, took part in Wheeler Expeditions in territories east of the Rocky Mountains, and was Chief of Statistics in the U. S. Department of State. He left his wife and children in 1877 and married a second wife, Alice C. Townsend three years later. Barnes served as U. S. Commercial Agent at La Guyra, Venezuela, South America, and as U. S. Consul in Curaçao, West Indies, and then spent most of the rest of his life working in the U. S. Department of Agriculture. He was still working there on his 80th birthday, April 14, 1915. Almont Barnes died January 16, 1918, in Washington, DC and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery. He was 82 years of age. His wife Alice C. Townsend died August 20, 1931, and is buried beside him.