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Ralph A. Barry, Philatelist, Dies. Stamp, Coin Editor Widely Known as Expert, Formerly an Engineer. Funeral services for Ralph Andrews Barry, stamp and coin editor of the New York Herald Tribune and former railroad construction engineer, who died yesterday at his home, 29-29 162d St, Flushing, will be held this evening at 8:30 o'clock at the Fairchild Chapel, 141-26 Northern Boulevard. Burial will be tomorrow in Ewing Church Cemetery, Trenton, New Jersey. Mr. Barry was 56 and had been ill for six months. After his retirement from the engineering field, he had devoted all his time to his hobby of stamp collecting. He had held' his post on the Herald Tribune since 1933. At the American Philatelic Society Congress in Atlantic City last month he was elected dean of philatelic writers. Mr. Barry's collection of United States stamps had won prizes at many exhibitions. In addition to writing newspaper articles he frequently spoke over the radio, contributed to philatelic publications and served as a Judge at exhibitions. Helped Build B.M.T. Born on November 30, 1883, at Dover, Ohio, Mr. Barry attended Boys High School here and was graduated from Princeton University with a degree in civil engineering cum laude in 1906. From 1907 until 1914 he was a member of the engineering staff of the New York Central Railroad, leaving in the latter year to join the old Jobson-Gifford Company, construction engineers. At the time of his retirement he was chief engineer for that concern. While with the Jobson-Gifford Company Mr. Barry did construction work on the subway and elevated lines of the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation. He also was active in the electrification of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad and worked on plans for the Newark Terminal of the Pennsylvania Railroad. In Many Societies. Mr. Barry was a member of the Royal Philatelic Society of London, the Collectors Club of New York, the Polar Star Masonic Lodge and the American Philatelic Society. He was president of the Masonic Stamp Club. He helped to organize and was one of the Judges of the first intercollegiate competitive stamp exhibition held at Columbia University in March, 1938. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Claudine Jeanette Paff Barry, whom he married in 1908, and two children, Kathryn and Alfred Barry.

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