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

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bu1ld stock yards As concelved and planned by Nlr Brady ffor Mr Barnard though more than amply competent xx as contlnually much too buss at overseelng the ra1l l1ne s fabr1cat1on to add th1s chore personall to his other heavy dutxes7 the new town was made up of 36 blocks comprlsmg 291 lots Its desmn and map were finlshed and offi lallv filed 22 Apr1l 1870 A normal block IH Barnard measures 264 feet east and west and 276 feet north and south and contalns e1ther 8 or 12 lots Each of the streets IS 66 feet Cone cham or 4 rods 3 vude and most of the alleys have a wxdth of 16 feet both were and are of course as cus tomarxly dedlcated to the pubhc The sectlon l1ne between Sectlons 14 and 15 Townshxp 62 North Range 35 West and the east west quarter SBCtlOD l1ne of Sect1on 14 cut across and corner ln our school yard Wh1Ch orlgmally was 1ntersected by both an east 1 est street and an alley these were vacated by court order 8 Feb 1884 The usual sales prlce per lot then was 3550 O0 and many of the parcels found ready buyers though some few were sold by the Assoc1at1on ln wh1 h Mr Barnard contmued to hold hls full share and an actlve lnterest as late as 1878 Bu1ld1ngs for stol es and shops and resldences and servlces sprang up lmmedlately IH 1870 and the US Postoffice was removed from Pralrle Park and renamed Barnard on 3 March 1871 In the Fed eral Census of 1880 Barnard s populat1on was 424 Grant Townshxp s IH habxtants had lncreased ln number from 1105 1n 1840 to 1858 an all tlme hlgh ID 1880 The pr1nc1pal east xx est street 1n Hopkms and an Add1t1on on the west to 'NIa1tl'1nd are known to be 1 'N11 Barnald s name as evldence of h1S far Hung and v1gorous act1v1t1e Too, one mav well congecture that m Iillal respect he conferred hls mother s malden name on the 3unct1on po1nt of The Vxlllsca Branch 1n Holt County When the NI1ssour1 Vallex . - v . Y Y V . . . L - . U , K . . v , V . v v 7 Y C . ' Y . . . , . . . I uv v J . ' . Y . - 1 . . . . C. ' u 11 ' , . - - - , . , 1 1 1 1 1 1 ' . U . . ,, . . . , . ' . 1 1 1 ' ' ' 1 1 1 ' , ' vi, A , u 11 , c- ., . ' 1 . . . .A 1 1 V A . , . . , . . A , . ' . , . . , . , . . . . . ,. , - , . . . - y . . U . . ,, ' 1 ' ' 1. ' ' ' 2 ' . '. ' , ' - S. w v . . . , . . .

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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

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and the Councll Bluffs Sz St Joseph Rall Roads were consolldated he remalned wxth the enlarged company as chlef englneer and assumed charge of constructlon of the segment between Maryvllle and Hopkms 1871 S1multaneously he became chxef engmeer and supermtendent of the St Joseph and Denver Clty Rall Road and 50 mxles of thxs lxne were bullt under hxs supervxslon For elght years follomng 1872 hxs prmcxpal mterests were wlth the Kansas Cxty St Joseph and Councll Bluffs Raxl Road which was purchased by the Chlcago Burlm ton and Qulncy Raxlroad Company rn 1880 Then Mr Barnard was made general man ager for thls d1v1s1on of the Burlmgton and he continued ln thxs posx tlon untll October 1886 besldes wozklng also from July 1881 as gen eral superlntendent of the bt Joseph and Des Moxnes Rall Poad and from the autumn of 1884 as general manager of the Hannxbal and St Joseph Rall Road as well Then from October 1886 to October 1892 he was presldent and general manager of the Ohm and 'XI1ss1ss1pp1 Rallroad Company Subsequently for five years he was rece1ver of the Omaha and St Louis Rall Road now the Wabash From January 1897 for the ensu mg four years he was also re elver of the St Clalr NIad1son and St Louls Belt Rall Road and when th1s property was returned by the courts to the ownmg company he became 1ts pres1dent Nleanwhxle he had also held several dlrectorshlps secretary and treasurershrps of the St Joseph Umon Depot Company and had served as presxdent of the Atch on Umon Depot and Rall Road Company and as presxdent of the Umon Stock Yards Company at St Joseph By warranty deed on 29 May 1875 Mr Barnard purch sed Lots 1 to 10 mclusxve ln Block 9 m Wllsons Addxtlon, St Joseph from Jeff and Sarah C Chandler and two days later he bought a qu1t Clal'Y1 deed to the same hold1ngs from James B O Toole Th1s gave h1m a very splen . 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . Y . . . . . , . . . .U .I 1 1 o , - 1 9 1 1 1 . w . . 1 I1 , ' 7 7 1 Y A . - 1 - 1 1 ' . n. . . C . ,A . 1 . . . E . I .1 . , . , , li D , A , 7 , 1 C4 v ' 1 - 1 . , . . '