James Madison Barker (October 23, 1839 – October 2, 1905) was a justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court from 1891 to 1905. He was appointed by Governor William E. Russell.
Barker was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts to John Vanderburgh, a woolen manufacturer whose American ancestry could be traced back to settlers of Rhode Island in 1663, and Sarah (Apthorp) Barker.The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 14 (1917), p. 494. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography says of Barker:
Barker died in Boston, Massachusetts, while sitting as a single justice.
References