Personal Life
Barrow was known as "Uncle Egbert" to his friends. He resided in Rye, New York. He first married in 1898, but did not discuss it in any of his writings. His second marriage was to Fannie Taylor Briggs in January 1912; he raised her five-year-old daughter from her previous marriage, Audrey, as his own daughter.
Barrow was an able boxer. He once fought John L. Sullivan in an exhibition for four rounds.
Barrow was hospitalized on July 7, 1953 at Port Chester United Hospital in Port Chester, New York and died on December 15, at the age of 85, due to a malignancy. His body was kept at Campbell's Funeral Home and interred in Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, Westchester County, New York.
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