James Madison Barker (October 23, 1839 â October 2, 1905) was a justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court from 1891 to 1905. He was appointed by Governor William E. Russell.
Barker was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts to John Vanderburgh, a woolen manufacturer whose American ancestry could be traced back to settlers of Rhode Island in 1663, and Sarah (Apthorp) Barker. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography says of Barker:
Barker died in Boston, Massachusetts, while sitting as a single justice.