Univ. pres.; b.
Chicago, June 27, 1873; son of Thomas and Ella Amelia (Cole) Barrows; A.B.,
Pomona College., 1894, LL.D., 1914; M.A., U. of Calif., 1895, LL.D., 1919;
attended Columbia U., 1896; Ph.D. in anthropology, U. of Chicago, 1897;
LL.D., Mills College, 1925; married Anna Spencer Nichols, of Burlington,
Vt., July 18, 1895; Children: Anna (Mrs. Floyd Wayne Stewart), Ella (Mrs.
Gerald Hagar), Thomas Nichols, Elizabeth (Mrs. Frank G. Adams).
Appointed to service,
by Hon. W. H. Taft, then pres. Philippine Commission., Aug. 1900; in charge.
Manila schools., 1900; was member of administrative staff of Generals Bell
and Davis, successively provost marshals of Manila; organized and conducted
1st teachers' training school for native teachers in the Philippine Islands;
appointed chief of bureau of non-Christian tribes by Gov. Taft, 1901,
organized bureau and engaged in reconnaissance of unknown parts of
Philippines Islands, 2 yrs.; identified with framing the organic law for
Moro Province; prepared essay on population for 1st Philippine census and
the nomenclature of the Christian peoples and non-Christian tribes, 1903;
general Superintendent of Education, Philippine Islands, 1903-09;
reorganized educational service of islands, inaugurated and made effective
the system of district supervisors, embracing over 400 American supervisors;
prepared and promulgated courses of instruction for elementary, intermediate
and secondary schools; introduced system of manual training schools,
gardening, provincial school shops and agricultural schools, which are still
in effect in PI; organized and inaugurated summer camp and school of
instruction for teachers in the mountains of Benguet, 1908; during 9 yrs. Of
Philippine Island service traveled in every province; Pres. Board of
Trustees, Mills College, Calif., 1910-17; became Prof. of Education, U. of
Calif., 1910, prof. of political science, 1911, now Chairman of department,
Dean of Graduate School. 1911, dean of faculties, 1912, acting pres. of univ.
July 1912, Jan. 1913, pres. of U. of Calif., 1919,23; now Chairman. dept. of
political science; dir. Calif. Inst. for Deaf, Dumb & Blind, 1912-17;
member Calif. State commission on rural credit and land colonization,
1915,17; appointed member American Service in Belgium by Herbert Hoover, and
had charge of food supply in Brussels, 1916; Director East Bay (Calif.)
municipal utility district., charged with Mokelumne aqueduct project, 1924-;
Chairman. Oakland horse show, 3 consecutive yrs.; appointed Carnegie
Visiting professor of international relations, Latin American, 1927; has
traveled in Asia, Malaysia, C.A., S.A. and Africa. Commd. in O.R.C., U.S.A.,
1916; commd. Maj. of cavalry, National Guard, and assigned to 91st Div.,
1917, Lt.Col. cavalry, U.S.A., 1918; was Commanding Officer of 348th Machine
Gun Battalion; became intelligence officer of Philippine Islands, on Gen.
Evans' staff, 1918; on Special Military Mission to Manchuria and Siberia,
Mar. 1918; accompanied the White Army, under Gen. Semionoff, in campaign
against Red (communist) forces in Transbaikalia, Apr.- May, 1918;
Intelligence Officer, American Expeditionary Forces (A.E.F.) in Siberia,
July 1918 - Mar. 1919; reorganized and was Col. Of 159th Infantry,
California National Guard (CNG). N.G., 1921-22; appointed Brig.Gen., 79th
Infantry Brigade, C.N.G., 1925; Maj. Gen. Commanding 40th Div., C.N.G.,
1926-.
Decorations:
Order of the Crown (Belgium);
Chevalier of Legion of Honor (France);
Criox de Guerre (Czecho - Slovakia);
Order of Sacred Treasure (Japan);
Order of Crown (Italy);
Order of Polonia Restituta (Poland)
Author: (doctoral
thesis) The Ethno-Botany of the Coahuilla Indians, 1900; History of
Philippines, 1st ed. 1903, 4th ed. 1924; A Decade of American Government in
Philippines, 1915; (with Prof. E. M. Sait), British Politics in Transition,
1925: Berbers & Blacks. 1926; (hist. essay) The Gov. Gen. of Philippines
Under Spain and the U.S.; also numerous articles and official reports on
ethnology of Philippine Islands public school system, history of
populations, etc.
Associations: Corr.
member Royal Academy of Political & Moral Science (Madrid), 1923; member
American Legion (1st state commander Calif., 1919-20), Siberian Veterans of
World War Association, Veterans Benevolent Foundation (trustee), Regional
Plan Association of East Bay Countries (trustee), Pi Kappa Sigma, Phi Beta
Kappa, Pi Sigma Alpha. Republican (member Calif. State Republican central
committee, various times). Congregationalist.
Clubs: Rotary (hon.),
Faculty (Berkeley); Bohemian, Pacific Union, Common wealth (San Francisco). Home:
85 Parkside Dr. Office: South Hall, Univ. of California,
Berkeley.
Photographs of
General David P. Barrows
by George Vitt
General David Barrows'
daughter's residence near Berkeley, ©
1955
General David Barrows chopping wood, © 1955
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George Vitt, click on the link below.
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