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 Cincinnati Republican journalist and politician, Barrett penned one of the first Lincoln biographies, Life of Abraham Lincoln (New York, 1865). [National Cyclopedia of American Biography. 60 vols. New York, 1893 — 1976]