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John Fiske Barnard

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John F. Barnard, while serving as the Gen. Supt. of the Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluff Railroad, accommodated John Nelson Darby to Council Bluffs and San Francisco in July of 1875 on his final trip to the United States, as reported in the History of the Work of God in America by Philip Franklin Jensen (1897-1972).

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Childhood

Findagrave.com has John Fiske Barnard born April 23, 1829 in Worcester, Massachusetts, lived in Council Bluffs, IA; Cincinatti, OH; died in Los Angeles, California, February 6, 1910, and buried in Hollywood at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, along with his second wife Julia Boswell (Keefer) Barnard (1840-1915) born in Waterloo, Ontario. His first wife was Gertrude Agnes (Harvey) Barnard of Bath, England;

John was the son of John (1803-?) and Sarah Rice (Bigelow), married in 1826; Five generations back was also John Barnard born in 1604 who emigrated from England in the “Elizabeth” in 1634 with his wife Phoebe, and is included in the “Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy: Volume One (1925) under J.F.’s eighth child Wilfred.

Education

John was educated in 1850 at Renssalaer Polytechnic School, in Troy, NY, the first year of its reorganization as a three-year school; He considered himself Episcopalian in 1851.

Occupation

“The Railway Age: Volume 11” reports that the aforementioned Mr. John F. Barnard also later served as president of the Ohio & Mississippi railway company, as well as the general manager of the Hannibal & St. Joseph. He was also president of the Atchison Union Depot Co. at St. Joseph) and was a director of several other companies, including the Hannibal Union Depot Co., the Kansas City Union Depot Co., etc.

Family

John Barnard had nine children:

  • Annie Barnard (1855-1940) married John Wells (1856-1942), Berkeley, CA.
  • Helena Barnard (1858-1942) served as one of three cofounders and the first secretary of what is now known as the American Nurses Association, started in 1892, and has early roots with the John Hopkins School of Nursing. She also served as president of the CA State Nurses’ Assoc., and a member of the board of managers for the Children’s Hospital, founded in 1914 in Los Angeles.
  • John Alfred Barnard (1861-1910) born in Grenville Province of Quebec, GM of the Ohio, Indiana & Western RR, as well as GM of Peoria & Eastern RR; Episcopalian; Two wives; First was Louise Ingalls who was daughter of Melville Ingalls, president of the Cleveland, Cincinatti, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad; Second wife was Julia Fletcher. John lived in Coronado and Pasadena, CA. Three children: Hilda (1902), Julia (1904) and Agnes (1905). Due to a acrimonious custody dispute thru divorce, as each of the three children inherited $250k, Julia committed suicide in 1910.
  • Gertrude Barnard (m. Arthur G. Wells, born in Guelph, ON, son of Arthur & Georgiana Wells, and served as general manager of the Santa Fe Railway); Gertrude founded and taught the Wellspring Bible Class at the Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago, IL, as well as serving as as president of the women’s missionary society, taught a bible class for young married women in Winnetka in the home of Henry Coleman Crowell, whose father was the founder of Quaker Oats, and president of the board of Moody Bible Institute (1902-1944.
    • Henry himself was an executive vice-president at Moody, and president of Missionary Equipment Service in Chicago. She also served with a social service agency known as Erie Chapel, Moody Bible Institute, and later was involved in outreach to Chinese girls in Los Angeles associated with Biola. She was also a member of the Executive Committee of the American Mission to Lepers.
  • Robert Christie Barnard (1869-1942), m. 1897 Helen Cheney Nelson (1875-1955). Born in Montreal, Quebec. Studied 1890 at Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Engineer in RR including superintendent of Cleveland Akron & Columbus RR, and secretary of the Dayton Union RR. Helen served as a director of the prestigious Three Arts Club of Cincinatti. Robert was part of the Queen City Club, and Country Club in Cincinatti.
  • Wilhelmina Barnard (1862-1945) may have married a South African named Barend Andries Liebenberg (1855-1938), and served in missions in Louisvale, Gordonia, South Africa where she was buried.
  • Reginald Napier Barnard (1872-1893)
  • Ethel Maitland Barnard who married George Ensign Bushnell, who graduated from Yale in 1876 and was a noted Army surgeon; George was also son of Congregational minister in Beloit, WI of the same name who grad Yale 1842, and grandson of Eli Whitney Bushnell, inventor of a mortise lock and the Blake stone-crushing machine. Eli was also a nephew of Eli Whitney, the inventor of the cotton gin.
  • Harold Galt Barnard (1876-1886)
  • Wilfred Keefer Barnard (1879-1936) born in St. Joseph, MO and died in Pasadena, CA. Wilfred was an engineering graduate of Yale in 1901, and spent several years in railroad work, including supervision of main line and terminal construction on the Los Angeles & Salt Lake R.R., and the Pacific Electric R.R. at Los Angeles.

In 1913, he formed a partnership with Charles T. Leeds to form a consulting civil engineering firm Quinton, Code & Hill-Leeds & Barnard. His wife was Katherine (Clark) Barnard (1885-1969) born in Prescott, AZ and died in Los Angeles;

  • Archer Fortescue Barnard (1881- ) born in St. Joseph, MO who graduated in 1903 from Yale, served as an assistant engineer with Wilfred for Leeds & Barnard, in Los Angeles. Presbyterian.

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