Stanley Huntington Barriger died at his home on Tuesday, May 27, 2008.  He was 74.  Mr. Barriger was born on August 13, 1933 in Washington, DC, the son of John W. Barriger III and Elizabeth Thatcher Barriger.  He married Cynthia Cahill on July 7, 1984.

He is survived by his wife, Cynthia Barriger, his son Mark S. Barriger, his daughter Amy S. Barriger, his step-son Michael J. Cahill and wife Larissa of Brownsville, VT, his step-daughter Erin C. Pacheco and husband George of Swansea, MA, his brother John W. Barriger IV and wife Evelyn of Kenilworth, IL, and by six nieces and nephews.  He was preceded in death by his parents and his sisters Betty T. Barriger of St. Louis, MO and Ann B. Salyard of Haverford, PA.

Mr. Barriger graduated from MIT in 1955 and from the Yale Graduate School of Transportation Economics in 1956.  He worked for Missouri Pacific and New York Central Railroads, Amtrak, the United Fruit Company and for the World Bank and the Association of American Railroads on consulting jobs in 38 countries throughout the world.   He was a member of the Travelers’ Century Club that recognizes people who have visited more than one hundred countries in their lifetimes; his total number of countries visited stood at 168.  It has been said that Stanley had logged the greatest number of rail miles traveled by any living person. It was this passion for travel, especially by rail, that inspired Stanley to open Ascutney Travel in Claremont in 1985. One of his proudest accomplishments was his success in convincing Amtrak to begin service to Claremont Junction in the 1980s, the only New Hampshire passenger stop on its Montrealer line. 

Friends may call at Stringer’s Funeral Home, 146 Broad Street on Friday evening from  6 to 8 P.M.  

A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Saturday, May 31^st at Eleven O’clock in St. Mary’s Church in Claremont, NH with Rev. Father Shawn M. Therrien, Pastor, officiating.

Interment will follow in St Mary’s Cemetery.

In 1984 Stanley was a founding Trustee of the John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library, now at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, America’s largest and most complete repository of Railroad data. Memorial contributions to the Barriger Library may be sent in care of Greg Ames, Curator, One University Boulevard, St. Louis, MO 63121-4499, phone 314-516-7253.