From the New York Times, October 31, 1952: Lawrenceville,NJ — Oct. 30 — George Silk Barnum, for twenty-four years a teacher of modern languages at the Lawrenceville School, died yesterday (October 29) in Lockport, New York at the age of 64. Upon his retirement in 1947 because of ill health, he was head of the school’s modern languages department. Mr. Barnum also had been an examiner for the college entrance examination board and chairman of the modern languages committee of the secondary education board, comprising more than 300 independent schools. He was graduated from Cornell and the University of Minnesota. A sister, Mrs. Joseph Stone of Lockport survives.