South Nodaway High School - Corral Yearbook (Barnard, MO)

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Ontarlo and became supermtendent of thls company s xast and sprawl mg portlon whxch had prevlously been the Buffalo and Lake Huron Rallroad Then m Nlarch 1866 he was lecalled to Nlontreal to take charge as Chlef Engmeer of all the Imes of the Grand Trunk lymg east and south of Montreal and the St Lawrence Rlver Out ln Amerxca s turbulent Whd West when the pnoneel Hanmbal and St Joseph Rall Road 1858 had returned ample proof that It was a very valuable and a profit maklng enterpuse men of v1s1on seekmg means for the lnvestment of thelr mountmg cap1tal foresaw the wisdom of estabhshmg feeder hnes for and to the western termmus or ra1l head of thls throughvxay The Mlssourx Valley Rall Road Company was or gamzed at St Joseph ID 1867 to tap the area lmmedlately north of that lusty c1ty up the r1ch valley of the 102 Rzver and was chartered by the sought out the best man ava1lable to lay out and bumld their project and Mr Barnard, now matured and wxth nearly two decades of experxence was chosen and was lured or coaxed from Canada to the western frontxer by hlgher wages and a goodly share xn the ownershlp of the venture As Supermtendent of Constructlon he xmmedxately xnstxtuted work on a full blown scale at the glgantlc task of creatlng a new rallway flung northward from St Joseph mto the fertxle reg1on whxch had been well settled for a quarter century but whxch had ln the ways of trans portatlon been served only by a few mean and poor wagon H3113 Much of the crop land was under cult1vat1on though m a pr1m1t1xe way and quxte a number of excellent orchards had well matured As construction of The NIISSOUFI Vallev Rall Road came up the valley floor of the 102 Rlver, along xts 100 feet wlde rlght of way ac quned by purchase 1n large part dependent on 3 mlle sub contracts 1 ' Y ' . . , , . I l A v ' Y i V - . I. , . . , . 3 . Y . . . - ' 9 . y . . , Missouri state legislature, 8 March, 1867. This company's directors then 7 ' 9 D . . . . , u u , ' - - , , - y Y ' .A . A - . . Y . . . y ' . A . . . . v , ' 1 - ' 1 - . .,

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John F1SkC Barnard son of John and Sarah R CBxgelovfD Barnald of Br1t1sh descent was born xn Worcester Mass 23 Aprxl 1829 Hls boyhood and adolescence were spent on a farm not far f1 om hlS bxrth place and he completed the requlred elementary grades or terms IH a rural school nearby Then he became a student at and graduated from an academy l1ke Normal School at Brldgewater Mass where he dls played so much grasp of and mnate s holarslnp m the mathematlcal and physlcal branches that h1s lnstructors successfully prevalled upon hlm to contlnue h1S studles at Rensselaer Polytechnxc Instltute Troy NY then as now one of our natxon s leadmg centers for colleg1ate t1 ammg ln the fields of technology and applled scxences Mr Barnard enrolled at Rensselaer on 7 Nov 1849 and was graduated the followlng year wxth the degree of C1v1l Engxneer CC E J and ambxtlous young englneer found employment lmmedlately and entered upon a long l1fet1mes work m rallroad construct1on and oper atlonal management and mamtenance Immedlately upon graduatlon he was hlred as top asslstant by the chlef engmeer of the St Lawrence and Atlantlc Ra1lroad now a part of the Grand Trunk Rallwav 1n eastern Canada Advancement followed qulckly enough and from 1857 on for sxx years he was 1n charge of the Montreal and Bytown Rallroad bu1lt under dlfficult condxtlons alongslde the rap1ds xn the St Lawrence Rwcr and slmultaneously for fave years he was superlntendent of the Carr1llon and Grenvzlle Raxlroad In 1863 he became supermtendent of the Mon treal and Champlam Railroad wh1ch extended from Montreal to Rouse s Pomt N Y and from Montreal to Moore s J unctlon on the Ogdensbuxg and Lake Champlam llne When th1s road wlth others was merged lnto the Grand Trunk In August 1864 Mr Barnard settled at Brandford 1 - l I v . . y . , W ., I . l ' 7 1 - ' ll I7 ' ' - Y 'Y . 0 . . . . . . . . V y u -, '! ! Talent and industry never can long remain hidden, and the forceful Y . . , . . . I L ' y 9 ' ' 1 . . . , ! . , , Q , . ., 1 ' ! D . l I ' Y

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w1th muscled men and sw eatmg mules and shox els and plows and small capac1t3, scrapers and temporary tented camps and practxcal brldge bu1ld1ng crews and gangs of track laymg Ir1shers all 1n one fast but tangled and rough and worrxsome pattern the decade old settlement of Pra1r1e Park 2M mxles north of the Nodaway County lxne was sklrted But a mxle further north Mr Barnard found late m 1869 a handsomely forested h1lls1de at whose foot a water powered gust m1ll had been erected by Mr James C McCandless And here the engmeer env1s1oned a town s1te Its fee s1mple had been entered and purchased from the General Land Office more than 25 years before and 1ts portlons all had changed hands several t1mes and lt was at that tlme d1v1ded 1nto five wood lots three of WhlCh were most amallngly and erratlcally poly gonal ln shape the roll1ng pra1r1e nearby had been kept largely treeless by forest fires and wood had much value to the pxoneers both as bunld verdant slope CThese respectxvely stood at what soon became the NE corner of Block 13 and the SE corner of Block 28 3 Pralrle Park was regarded as bemg too low and too flat for satlsfacbory development as a rallroad town Plannlng and lmplem ntmg and executlon were vely quxck matters w1th Mr Barnard and The Barnard C1ty Company 1m medxately came lnto exlstence as an Assocxatlon Cmcoxporatlon was delayed untll 1881 J made up of hlmself two St Joseph financxers and three of the owners of the small and so queerly shaped tracts the As socxatlon s capxtal had a book value of S36 000 00 Mr Wzlllam Brady a talented and lndustrxous local surves or was hlred and 1n the sprmg of 1810 a town to be called Barnard was laxd off and measured and platted roughly tr1angular ln shape, covermg 80 92 acres d1rectlv alongs1de the new rallroad uhxch made haste to erect a depot and to , v , , . . - , , - . . , . , - 7 7 ' 4' ' r l 7 , - . - . - ' - ' ll il , . . ,, ,, . . V . . . . Y ll - YI ' ' ' - i y . . g ing material and as fuel. Two small farm-houses had been built on the ' Y l . . . , . . A . . . ,, . . ,, . , . D . ! . Y ' . Y - - 2 - ' ' I ' ll H , ' ' , . . . , . . 7 v . . . v 9 I ' , U ' - YP ! ' , . . Y . I