Borah Avenue West and
Barry was born in 1887 on a farm in
Pennsylvania. After he graduated from school, Barry s father farmed him out to a neighbor, who paid the Barry family
$30 per month for his labor. His father allowed him to keep
$2 of the monthly wage for himself.
After three years of the arrangement, Barry decided he didn t want to spend the rest of his life looking at the south end of a horse going north, according to a short biography written by his son David in 1988.
Barry put himself through
Kansas State Teachers College and in 1914 sent his resume to the