Amelia E. Barr

The Belle of Bowling Green Amelia E. Barr

Amelia Edith Barr (Huddleston) (1831-1919) was a British American novelist. In 1850 she married William Barr, and four years later they immigrated to the United States and settled in Galveston, Texas where her husband and three of their six children died of yellow fever in 1867. With her three remaining daughters Mrs. Barr removed to New York City in 1869 where she began to write for religious periodicals and to publish a series of semi-historical tales and novels.