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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).
=Childhood=
[http://www.findagrave.com 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.