| Summary: | Robert Ruffin Barrow (1798-1875) was one of the wealthiest sugar planters and canal and steamboat owners in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, on the eve of the Civil War. Barrow was the son of Bennet H. Barrow (1811-1854). Thomas Butler (1785-1847) was a native of Pennsylvania, and he settled in West Feliciana Parish, La., where he became a judge and represented his district in the U.S. House of Representatives. The Robert Barrow manuscript consists of one item, a statement of Barrow regarding a quarrel between the Barrow and Butler families, with special attention to the attitude of the Butlers toward a pamphlet written by Barrow.
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