Samuel L. M. Barlow

Samuel Latham Mitchill Barlow I (January 5, 1826 – July 10, 1889) was an American lawyer known for forming several legal partnerships, such as Bowdoin, Larocque & Barlow and Shipman, Barlow, Larocque. Barlow was also a major stakeholder in The New York World newspaper. Before passing the bar, he had studied by serving as seven years as an apprentice in a New York law practice.

Early life Samuel Barlow was born on January 5, 1826, in Granville, Massachusetts, the eldest child of Rhoda Hopkins (née Wadsworth) Barlow (1802–1880) and Dr. Samuel Bancroft Barlow (1798–1875), a physician who had graduated from Yale University.

He was descended from English settlers who had immigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1620. Samuel's family moved to New York City when he was young.

In 1852, Barlow established a partnership with George R.J. Bowdoin and Jeremiah Laroque, to form the firm Bowdoin, Larocque and Barlow.

Upon the death of his two partners, Barlow formed a new partnership: Shipman, Barlow Larocque & Choate. The new firm became one of the most prominent practices in New York.

Alice Wadsworth Barlow (1853–1882), who married Stephen Henry Olin, a lawyer who served as the acting president of Wesleyan University. Peter Townsend Barlow (1857–1921), a lawyer and jurist who married Virginia Louise Matthews, sister of author Brander Matthews. Barlow's funeral service was held on July 12 at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Glen Cove. Attendees included former Secretary of State Thomas F. Bayard and Gen. Fitz John Porter.

Descendants Through his daughter Alice, he was the grandfather of two girls, Alice Townsend Olin (1881–1963), who married Tracy Dows, and Julia Lynch Olin (1882–1961), who was known for later leading the Reform Baháʼí Movement. She married J. Philip Benkard in 1902. They divorced in 1920 and she married Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler in 1921; he was the former Lt. Gov. of New York.

Through his son Peter, he was the grandfather of two boys, Edward Matthews Barlow, who died at the age of thirteen, and Samuel L. M. Barlow II (1892–1982), a Harvard educated pianist and composer.