They were the oldest of three sons and two daughters born to Henry Clinton Barron, a physician in California. Henry, the younger of the two brothers, would be active as a musician and have extensive musical training during his studies in theology at Pacific Union College; Washington Missionary College, now Columbia Union College; and La Sierra College, now La Sierra University.

Near the end of 1949, while still in college, he assisted Richard who was working as an evangelist in western Pennsylvania, and in early 1950 sang in a quartet that assisted George Vandeman in evangelistic meetings held in the Sligo Church in Takoma Park, Maryland. During his final studies in theology at LSC, he was a charter member of The Collegians, the select LSC choral group.

Following graduation from LSC in 1952, he and his wife, Pansy, moved to Texas where he began his service as a minister and worked as an evangelist with Stanley Harris. At this time, he and his brother attended a workshop in evangelism conducted in Texas by Fordyce Detamore and Ray Turner, who inspired them to work together as full-time evangelists. They formed The Barron Brothers Evangelistic Team and worked together from 1955 to 1959, holding meetings in Texas, North Dakota, Minnesota, and Iowa.

In 1959, Henry accepted a call to be pastor-evangelist in Texas and a year later became pastor at the Westminster, California, church. He next served as youth pastor at the La Sierra College church and in 1967 joined the Greater New York Conference, where he served as ministerial secretary and coordinator of evangelism and director of the New York Center. He was chosen secretary of the SDA Ministerial Association in 1968.

In 1972, his brother Richard died in a flying accident while visiting in Walla Walla, Washington. A year after this tragic and difficult loss, Henry became director-speaker for The Builders of Faith radio program in California. He continued to work in evangelism for the remainder of his career.

Henry and Richard recorded five albums for Chapel Records. A record of their singing, titled Come to Jesus, My Friend, A Memorial to Dick Barron was released in 1978.

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Sources: Record liners from recordings of the Barron brothers released by Chapel Records; Obituary for Henry Clinton Barron, PUR, 12 November 1973, 5; Introducing A New Ministerial Association Secretary," Ministry Magazine, May 1968, 9; News notes, Pacific Union Recorder, including "Elder Henry Barron Speaks at Recent Week of Prayer," 9 December 1968 and "Henry Barron Becomes Director-Speaker of 'Builders of Faith' Radio Program," 6 August 1973, and others; Notices of evangelistic meetings listed in the 1980s in Outlook, the Mid-America Union SDA Conference magazine.