Barstow
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Places

In the United States:
  • Barstow, California
    Barstow, California
    Barstow is a city in San Bernardino County, California, United States. The population was 22,639 at the 2010 census, up from 21,119 at the 2000 census. Barstow is located north of San Bernardino....

    , a city in San Bernadino County
  • Barstow, Fresno County, California
    Barstow, Fresno County, California
    Barstow is an unincorporated community in Fresno County, California. It is located west-southwest of Herndon, at an elevation of 276 feet ....

    , an unincorporated community
  • Barstow, Illinois
    Barstow, Illinois
    Barstow is an unincorporated community in Rock Island County, Illinois, United States. Barstow is east of East Moline and Silvis....

  • Barstow, Maryland
    Barstow, Maryland
    Barstow is a small, rural unincorporated community in Calvert County, Maryland located immediately west of Prince Frederick. The community maintains its own separate zip code, 20610....

  • Barstow, Texas
    Barstow, Texas
    Barstow is a city in Ward County, Texas, United States. The population was 406 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Barstow is located at ....


People

  • Arthur Edward Barstow
    Arthur Edward Barstow
    Major-General Arthur Edward "Bustling Bill" Barstow CIE MC was an officer in the Indian Army and commanded the Indian 9th Infantry Division during the Battle of Malaya. He was killed by the Japanese on 28 January 1942 while trying to cross a demolished railway bridge near Layang Layang village...

     (1888-1942), officer in the British Indian Army
  • David Barstow
    David Barstow
    -Life:Born in Boston, he received a bachelor's degree from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism in 1986. Barstow has worked for The New York Times since 1999, and has been an investigative reporter there since 2002.He worked for The St...

     (born 1963), American journalist
  • Gamaliel H. Barstow
    Gamaliel H. Barstow
    Gamaliel Henry Barstow was an American physician, lawyer and politician.-Life:...

     (1784-1865), American representative from NY 1831-1833
  • Sir George Lewis Barstow
    George Barstow
    Sir George Lewis Barstow KCB was a British civil servant and businessman.Barstow was born in York and was educated at Clifton College and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He then entered the Civil Service. In 1909 he was appointed a principal clerk in HM Treasury and shortly afterwards became an...

     (1874-1966), British civil servant
  • Gideon Barstow
    Gideon Barstow
    Gideon Barstow was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts. Born in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, Barstow attended the common schools and Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island from 1799 to 1801. He studied medicine, was admitted to practice and settled in Salem, Massachusetts...

     (1783-1852), American representative from Massachusetts
  • John Anderson Barstow
    John Anderson Barstow
    John Anderson Barstow MC was a British Army officer, the brother of Major General Arthur Edward Barstow and son of Lieut.Col. Thomas Adam Anderson Barstow of the Seaforth Highlanders and Jane Cape Barstow....

     (1893-1941), British Army officer and brother of Arthur Edward Barstow
  • John L. Barstow
    John L. Barstow
    John Lester Barstow was a teacher, farmer, politician, and soldier.Barstow was born in Shelburne, Vermont, the son of Heman and Lorain Barstow. After teaching in a local school starting at the age of 15, he moved west to Detroit, but returned in 1857 to help his aging parents with the farm...

     (1832-1919), American teacher and politician
  • Josephine Barstow
    Josephine Barstow
    Dame Josephine Clare Barstow DBE is an English soprano.-Education and early career:Josephine Barstow was born in Sheffield and educated at the University of Birmingham. She made her professional debut with the touring company Opera for All in 1964...

     (born 1940), English soprano
  • Stan Barstow
    Stan Barstow
    Stanley "Stan" Barstow FRSL was an English novelist.-Biography:Barstow was born in Horbury, near Wakefield, Yorkshire. His father was a coal miner and he attended Ossett Grammar School, he then worked as a draftsman and salesman for an engineering firm...

     (1928-2011), English novelist
  • Percy Gott Barstow (1883-1969), UK Member of Parliament 1941-1950
  • William A. Barstow
    William A. Barstow
    William Augustus Barstow was the third Governor of Wisconsin and a Union Army General during the American Civil War.-Early life:Barstow was born in Plainfield, Connecticut...

     (1813-1865), third governor of Wisconsin

Other uses

  • The Barstow School
    The Barstow School
    The Barstow School, founded in 1884 by Mary Louise Barstow, is a nonsectarian, coeducational, independent preparatory school in southern Kansas City, Missouri, USA.The Barstow School enrolls approximately 650 students from Preschool through Grade 12...

    , a private school in Kansas City, Missouri
  • "Barstow", a musical work by Harry Partch
    Harry Partch
    Harry Partch was an American composer and instrument creator. He was one of the first twentieth-century composers to work extensively and systematically with microtonal scales, writing much of his music for custom-made instruments that he built himself, tuned in 11-limit just intonation.-Early...

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