Biographical Sketch of John Fish Barnard, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, MO

>From "History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881, St. Joseph
Steam Printing Company, Printers, Binders, Etc., St. Joseph, Missouri.
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John Fish Barnard, was born at Worcester, Mass., April 23, 1829.  He
was raised on a farm until seventeen years of age, and received his
education up to this period in the district school.  In 1846, he
attended the Normal School at Bridgewater, Mass., and while there was
induced to enter Rensealaer Polytechnic Institute, where he took a
course in civil engineering, and graduated in 1850.  The same year he
was engaged by the Chief Engineer of the St. Lawrence & Atlantic Rail-
road, to go to Canada, where he remained until 1857, when the road
was completed.  He then, with others, engaged in making and shipping
railroad ties to Cuba.  In the summer of 1858, he took charge of a
short road on the banks of the Ottawa River, in Canada, where he re-
mained until 1863, when he was chosen Superintendent of the Montreal
and Champlain Railroad.  In 1864, this road was merged into the Grand
Trunk east and west of Montreal.  He was then removed to Bradford,
in Upper Canada, as superintendent of the road known as the Buffalo
and Lake Huron, but which had been consolidated with the Grand Trunk
Road, and remained here until 1866, and ten re-called to Montreal,
and became Chief Engineer of over six hundred miles of the Grand
Trunk Road.  In 1869, he took charge of the Missouri Valley Road as
Chief Engineer and Superintendent.  The Missouri Valley and Council
Bluffs and St. Joseph Road were consolidated in 1870.  He remained
with the company until the road was completed.  In 1871, he took 
charge of the St. Joseph and Denver City Railroad as Chief Engineer
and Superintendent.  In 1872, he left this road, and was appointed
Superintendent of the Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs Rail-
road.  On April 21, 1853, he married Miss Gertrude A. Harvey, of 
Bath, England, who died on March 25, 1865, leaving five children.
On April 28, 1868, he married Miss Julia B. Keefer, of Gault, Ohio.

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