Franklin E. Barnes

General Facts

Born: September 28, 1868, in North Lawrence, New York (which is located just 121 miles from Almonte, Ontario, Canada where Dr. James Naismith was born)

Died: October 3, 1947, at the age of 79 while visiting his son in Ocean Point, Maine ... was living in Winchester, Massachusetts at the time of his death

Wife: Julia Sawyer Fowle Barnes (1868-1947)

Children: Capt. Warren F. Barnes and Gertrude F. Barnes Jones

Item of Interest

  • Among the Original 18 Team members inducted into the inaugural class of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on March 3, 1959

Important Dates

1893: Graduated from the Secretarial Department of the International YMCA Training School (now Springfield College)

1893-1896: General Secretary, YMCA, Woburn, Massachusetts

1897-1909: Co-partner of Robbins & Barnes, a Men's Furnishing business in Boston 

1909-1945: In business, Franklin E. Barnes & Co. in Winchester Massachusetts

1914: Graduated from Columbia University

1945-1947: Retired, spent summers in Chebeague Island, Maine

General Facts