Excerpt from Commodore John Barry the Father of the American Navy, the Record of His Services, for Our Country: Serve the Country

Yet this Patriot of sterling worth and heroic services has not in the popular mind secured even a secondary position nor are his merits, founded on his deeds, known to his Country men beyond the most primary knowledge. Even his name seems not to be known to those, in Naval circles, who, on public occasions, speak of the deeds of the Navy or make manifestation of a knowledge of its heroes. Near a century after his death a tardy recognition of his services has come from the Government he aided so well in establishing and from the Navy Department, which he was the earliest in advising the creation of, by the naming in his honor of a torpedo boat destroyer the barry.

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