Major Edmund L. DuBarry, Superintendent of Norfolk Division, 1890s

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What is known of "Major" Edmund L. DuBarry, Superintendent of the Norfolk Division and then of the Eastern [General] Division in the 1890s?

There was a long line of DuBarrys, surgeons, naval officers, one General, and several railroaders (one of whom was a Vice President of the PRR,) who seem to have been congregated around Philadelphia and Trenton, NJ, stretching back to the late 18th Century.

Unfortunately, Edumud never responded to the annual queries for bios for inclusion in the Biographical Directory of Railway Officials of America.  We know he was aboard No. 2 the night of the big wreck at Thaxton in 1889.  And he appears in the Poor's Manuals.  Finally, the Alexandria Gazette of  December 5, 1908, indicates he had died at his home in Norfolk the previous day at age 68, "was once with the Pennsylvania Railroad," and "had been a railroad man for 50 years."  This indicates he was born about 1840.

Is there anything more comprehensive on Major DuBarry, perhaps an obtiuary?

-- abram burnett

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