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

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dld hxlltop property s1te 129 x 240 feet on whxch he buxlt a hand some and exceedmgly commodlous resxdence for h1S large famlly And he buxlt solxdly and well for this structure somewhat remodelled IS s xll extant as The General Osteopathxc Hospztal at 117 South 15th Street St Joseph lt had been purchased Q S18 000 00 by Dr A L and Hrs Mattie Gray 1n 1911 per warranty deed from Mrs J ulxa Boswell Barn ard et al and qult clalm deed from Abbxe Ingalls Barnard and guard lan s deed from Helena Barnard On 21 Aprll 1853 Mr Barnard marrxed Gertrude Agnes Harvey Cof Bath England D she dled 25 March 1865 leavmg four chxldren Hls second marrlage 28 Aprll 1868 was to Juha Boswell Keefer of Galt Ontarlo and thls unlon bore seven chlldren Exght of Mr Barnards duced prmclpally from hrs wxll for no obrtuary notlces have come to lxght were Wldow Juha Boswell Keefer Barnard born m 1840 she dred m 1915 and her rema1ns were lnterred bes1de h1s Sons Archer F Barnard John Alfred Barnard born IH 1861 widower d1ed 13 Nov 1910 and IS burled 1n the famxly lot Wxlfred K Barnard Robert Chr1st1e Barnard Wlfe Helen Barnard Hamxlton County Ohlo Each of these four sons be ame a rallroad man Daughters Helena Barnard C1858 1942 J Ethel M Barnard marr1ed George C Bushnell 1n Grant County N Mex Annle Barnard marr1ed John Wells Alameda County Calxf Gertrude B Bamard marr1edA G Wells they lxved near by at 2637 Ellendale Street, Los Angeles Callf and 7 . , , v . . - 2 1 1 lf 7 , 5 ' , , . , . . . . . A . I . l ' I, . . . v a ' v . 1 1 ' . 1 l 1 . 7 ! I I ' l . ! . i 1 . l 1 eleven progeny reached adult life and maturityg his survivors as de- J ' . 1 ' , ' . ' Q , . 7 . ! I l . '! , . . . Q . , , . ! I ' V., ll I V7 : , - . . , . , . . . , . ' , . . . , ' . . p ' - l 7 ' '!

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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 . , . . '

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Mr A G Wells served as executor of the founders estate Life treated Mr Barnard kmdly and all of h1s mdustrxous and energetic days were gxven to a usefulness of the hlghest order When the pressure of the passing yeals came mexorablv upon hlm and hls sunset days drew near he sought a supposedly more salubrlous chme and re moved ln 1905 to southern Calzforma Hls last domlclle was establlshed at 2711 Ellendale Street Cnow Ellendale Place about 4 blocks longj m Los Angeles On a full hfes culmination he d1ed there at 1 40 pm Sunday 6 February 1910 havlng been 1ll since the precedmg m1d October of a fatty and enlarged heart and chrome lnterstltlal nephritis His mortal rema1ns were 1nterred 8 Feb 1910 by Bresee Brothers Co undertakers 1n Sectxon 12 Lot 374 of Hollywood Memorxal Cemeterv on Santa Momca Boulevard Los Angeles where ln a beautlful settlng of bougamvlllae and oleanders and crepe myrtles he sleeps the just slumbers of a splendld and an honorable man In every lnstance the comp1lers of this memolr have had to depend on 0mCl3.l court records or on abstractors copies or the lxke of all ma ter1als hence not a smgle orxgxnal document bearmg the sngnature of Mr Barnard has appeared else this would have been shown herewith ln replica It may well be that the famlly papers of some local resldent may yet yleld an actual warranty deed showmg the first purchase of a lot ln Barnard or some other comparable conveyance or xndenture or contract etc 1n first manuscrlpt may sometlme be discovered m which event we would be happy to present a facs1m1l1e of 1ts speclmen of Mr Bamards autograph we could well expect It to show the neat and leglble penmanshxp of the precxsxon mmded engineer whom the man himself so ably personified ,Q . . . 1 , , . . . 1 1 . . - ' v 4 , . . D 9 .1 . . 1 v ' . . . . .. . . 1 1 . , . . . . , , . . ., . . . . - 1 1 1 ' . . . . .. , . . . . 9 11 1 'I . . . 1 1 1 .1 . . . . A 1 1 1 . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . 1 - 1 . . . . . . . . 1 1 . . . . . . 1 '1 1 . .. . . 1 , - 1 . . . . . .