Born in Glasgow in 1849, he was the son of Robert Barr and Jane Watson. His family emigrated to Wallacetown, Canada West (Ontario) in 1854. He married Eva Bennett in Raleigh Township, Ontario, in 1876. They had one son and one daughter.
He died in England in 1912.[1]
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