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Albert Barnes' mother, Lydia A. Schaffer, was a devout Methodist who took him to African American camp meetings and revivals. [1] The family lived first at 1466 Cook Street (now Wilt Street) in the rough working-class neighborhood of what is today Fishtown , and later in a slum area known as " the Neck " or "the Dumps".
Albert Barnes (December 1, 1798 – December 24, 1870) [1] was an American theologian, clergyman, abolitionist, temperance advocate, and author. Barnes is best known for his extensive Bible commentary and notes on the Old and New Testaments , published in a total of 14 volumes in the 1830s.
The property was purchased by Albert C. Barnes and his wife Laura in 1940 and expanded with two additions. The name "Ker-Feal" means "Fidèle's House" in Breton and was named after Barnes' favorite dog, Fidèle de Port Manech. [3] The property is now owned by the Barnes Foundation. Ker-Feal received an upgraded climate-control system in 2001 ...
The Barnes was founded in 1922 by Albert C. Barnes, who made his fortune by co-developing Argyrol, an antiseptic silver compound that was used to combat gonorrhea and inflammations of the eye, ear, nose, and throat. He sold his business, the A.C. Barnes Company, just months before the stock market crash of 1929.
Albert C. Barnes (1872–1951), creator of the Barnes Collection of Art and Argyrol inventor; Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter (born 1981), multimedia artist and activist; Cecilia Beaux (1855–1942), portrait painter [3] William Bell (1830–1910), photographer [4] Alexander Calder (1898–1976), sculptor; Alexander Milne Calder (1846–1923), sculptor
Russell soon joined the Barnes Foundation, lecturing to a varied audience on the history of philosophy; these lectures formed the basis of A History of Western Philosophy. His relationship with the eccentric Albert C. Barnes soon soured, and he returned to the UK in 1944 to rejoin the faculty of Trinity College. [92]
Barney was born in 1876 in Dayton, Ohio, to Albert Clifford Barney and Alice Pike Barney. [4] Alice learned to love the arts from her father, who owned Pike's Opera House in Cincinnati, Ohio. [5] Albert Barney partially inherited his family's railroad car manufacturing company, Barney & Smith Car Works. [6]
Following his dismissal, Russell was hired by Albert C. Barnes, who wrote the foreword for The Bertrand Russell Case, to teach for the Barnes Foundation. However, Barnes dismissed Russell in December 1942 due to his distaste for lecturing and his impolite attitude towards students, which violated Barnes's ideas of democracy and education. [10]