Wilson, Douglas L., ed; Davis, Rodney O., ed. 'Register of Informants' in 'Herndon's Informants: Letters, Interviews, and Statements About Abraham Lincoln' . Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. [format: book], [genre: history]. Permission: University of Illinois Press
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A Methodist minister of New York birth, Barrett was a missionary to the Chippewa before serving in several other locations in Illinois. He was the father of Oliver R. Barrett, the Lincoln collector. (Minutes of the 54th Session of the Illinois Annual

Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church [1877]; Minutes of the 94th Session of the Illinois Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church [1917]