Fulton County IL Archives Biographies.....Barnard, William Stebbins 1849 - 1888
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Author: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary

BARNARD, William Stebbins, entomologist, was born at Canton, Ill., Feb. 28, 
1849. He was educated at Canton high school and University of Michigan, and 
graduated at Cornell university (B S.) in 1871, and at the University of Jena 
(Ph.D.) in 1873; also studying at the University of Leipsic. In 1871 he 
accompanied Agassiz to Brazil as assistant geologist. In 1874 he was teacher 
and lecturer on protozoa at Cornell university, and at Anderson summer school, 
Penikese Island. He was professor of natural science in the Mississippi 
agricultural college, 1874-75; lecturer on zoology in the Illinois state 
summer school, 1875; professor of natural science at the Wisconsin state 
normal school, 1876-77; at Oskaloosa college, 1877-78; zoologist of the 
Woodruff scientific expedition, 1878; assistant professor of entomology, and 
lecturer on the zoology of invertebrates at Cornell university, 1879-81; 
assistant in the entomological division United States department of 
agriculture, 1881-86, and professor of natural history, Drake university, 1886-
87. He was the author of a Catalogue of the Invertebrates (1876), and a 
contributor to the American Quarterly Microscopical Journal, and the American 
Naturalist. He died Nov. 13, 1888.

Additional Comments:
Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans.
Vol. I-X. Rossiter Johnson, editor. Boston MA: The Biographical Society. 1904.

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