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Barbour -- U.S. County in West Virginia
Population (2000): 15557
Housing Units (2000): 7348
Land area (2000): 340.788265 sq. miles (882.637518 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.964724 sq. miles (5.088612 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 342.752989 sq. miles (887.726130 sq. km)
Located within: West Virginia (WV), FIPS 54
Location: 39.129016 N, 80.007572 W
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Barbour
Barbour, WV
Barbour County
Barbour County, WV
Barbour -- U.S. County in Alabama
Population (2000): 29038
Housing Units (2000): 12461
Land area (2000): 884.903549 sq. miles (2291.889572 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 19.613830 sq. miles (50.799584 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 904.517379 sq. miles (2342.689156 sq. km)
Located within: Alabama (AL), FIPS 01
Location: 31.856515 N, 85.331312 W
Headwords:
Barbour
Barbour, AL
Barbour County
Barbour County, AL
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Barbour

Barbour is a surname of Scottish origin. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Alex Barbour, English footballer
  • Alexander Barbour, Scottish international footballer
  • Anna Maynard Barbour (d. 1941), an American author
  • Erwin Hinckly Barbour (1856–1947), an American geologist
  • Haley Barbour, the 63rd governor of Mississippi
  • Ian Barbour, an American scholar of the relationship between science and religion
  • James Barbour, the 19th Governor of Virginia
  • James Barbour (1828–1895)
  • James Stacy Barbour, American actor and singer
  • John Barbour, "The Father of Scots poetry" (c.1320 – March 1395). Scottish makar, courtier and archdeacon.
  • John Barbour (actor), Canadian-born television personality in the United States
  • John Strode Barbour, Jr., a Representative and a Senator from Virginia
  • Julian Barbour, British physicist
  • Kandi Barbour, an American adult model
  • Lucius A. Barbour (1846-1922), American general
  • Mary Barbour, a Scottish political activist
  • Nelson H. Barbour, a Millerite Adventist
  • Philip Pendleton Barbour, a Representative from Virginia, brother of James Barbour
  • Ralph Henry Barbour, an American author of sports fiction for boys
  • Robert Barbour (disambiguation)
  • Samuel Barbour, an Australian chemist, photographer and X-ray pioneer in the colony of South Australia.
  • Thomas Barbour, an American herpetologist
  • Walworth Barbour, a United States Ambassador to Israel
  • William Warren Barbour, a US Senator from New Jersey
  • Arthur B. B. Moore, a Canadian Moderator of the United Church of Canada
  • Thomas Barbour Lathrop, an American philanthropist and world traveler, grandson of James Barbour
  • Barbour Lewis, an American politician

Usage examples of "barbour".

I dug my hands into the pockets of the barbour and struck out toward the pond down near the woods.

The message Jane Barbour had left for him at the office had been perfunctory: time and place, telling him to meet her.

He stood shoulder to shoulder with Van Brady, ignoring Barbour and directing his comments towards the film crew.

He went back to the window, let Barbour know she'd have to climb in if she wanted the tour.

But keep yourself straight: wake up DI Barbour and let her know the score.

He saw the sequence now: Jane Barbour telling Jim that Rough was coming back to town.

We all knowed the nigh crazy way Thorndike had hated Tom—not without reason, at that—Emily Barbour says to my Matildy as how Henry was lucky to have ol' Doc Pratt right on the spot with a death certificate as didn't leave no doubt for nobody.

Steve Barbour lingered long and attentively over the still face, and moved away shaking his head.

She was filing past the coffin like the rest, but stopped to peer a little closer than anyone else except the Barbours had peered.

Only Steve Barbour thought to bring up Thorndike's last choking words.

Some of the more sensitive people shivered at the whole proceeding, and again Stephen Barbour felt an underlying note of eldritch horror and daemoniac abnormality.

Steve Barbour and Deacon Leavitt started to go in, but before they could enter the house Sophie was bursting forth, sobbing and gasping about "That face at the window!

As the earth thudded down on the coffin-lids, Thorndike's first, Steve Barbour noticed the queer expressions flitting over Sophie Sprague's face.

Woke us all up—Steve and Emily Barbour and me and Matildy goes over hot-footin', all in night gear, and finds Sophie all dressed and dead fainted on the settin'-room floor.

He was still a college boy, member of an anonymous horde sought after by hostesses with daughters and no one else, while Enid was what Helen Ashley Barbour called a “young society matron,” occupied with going to parties and raising her child.