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=Family=
John married Julia Boswell Keefer Barnard's children:(b. 1840 Thorold, Niagara, [[Ontario|ON]] - d. 1915 Los Angeles, CA), daughter of Peter Keefer (b. 1801 ON) & Jane Keefer (b. 1812 [[England]]). In 1851, Peter was the postmaster of Galt, ON.
Children: * Anna "Annie " Mary Barnard Wells (b. 1855[[New Hampshire|N.H.]] -d. 1940L.A. Co., CA). Husband (1883 @ St. Joseph, MO) married : John Wells (1856-1942), Berkeley, CAwho was in 1871 PB in Guelph, ON.
* 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; 1st wife: Louise Ingalls who was daughter of Melville Ingalls, president of the Cleveland, Cincinatti, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad; 2nd wife: 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.
* 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.
* Reginald Napier Barnard (1872-1893)
* Ethel Maitland Barnard Bushnell who married Col. 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. In 1915, Col. Bushnell was in command at Fort Bayard, N.M.
* 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;