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The Daily Dispatch: December 22, 1865., [Electronic resource], General Assembly of Virginia. (search)
e most intense excitement was occasioned among the business people in the lower part of the city by the suicide of Mr. James T. Barker, one of the oldest and most respected oil merchants in this city, who shot himself through the head with a pistol in the office of his store, No. 148 Front street yesterday afternoon. Mr. Barker has been in the oil business in this city for a number of years, for a long time in the firm of Van Voornis & Barker. For several weeks past it was noticed by his immeBarker. For several weeks past it was noticed by his immediate friends and the members of his family that he was in a depressed state of mind, supposed to have been caused by losses in business. He appeared to be wandering in his mind for several days, but his relatives did not think it necessary to take ht temple; and the ball lodged in the brain, causing instant death. The pistol used was a common single-barreled one. Business difficulties are said to have been the only causes which prompted Mr. Barker to self- destruction.--New York World.