Nathaniel Barnard Bio
Monongalia Co. WV


The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume II

pg 197

Nathaniel Barnard, D. D. S., who is successfully established in the practice 
of his profession at Morgantown, Monongalia County, is a native of Maryland 
and a scion of sterling pioneer families in both that state and Pennsylvania, 
the Barnards being of Scotch ancestry and the Spear family lineage tracing 
back to Irish origin.  Nathaniel Barnard, Sr., father of the Doctor, was born 
and reared in Maryland, became a miller by vocation and owned and operated 
the Moscow Mills at Moscow, that state.  Subsequently he moved to 
Westernport, Maryland, where he remained until his death.  His wife, who 
likewise is deceased, bore the maiden name of Nancy Ellen Spear and was a 
representative of a family early founded in Pennsylvania.

Doctor Barnard was born at Westernport, Maryland, March 2, 1884, and in 1903 
he was graduated from the high school, after which he took a course in the Sta
te Business College at Cumberland, Maryland.  After three years of service as 
a bookkeeper he took a literary or academic course in the Davis and Elkins 
College at Elkins, West Virginia, and in 1913 he was graduated in the 
department of dentistry of the University of Maryland.  After thus receiving 
his degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery he entered active practice at Elkins, 
West Virginia, where he remained thus engaged until he entered the service of 
the nation in connection with the World war.  In August, 1917, he was 
commissioned first lieutenant in the Dental Corps of the United States Army 
and assigned to the Eighteenth Division, then stationed at Camp Lee, 
Virginia.  When this division was ordered overseas the Doctor was transferred 
to the One Hundred and Third Field Artillery, with which he was in active 
service in France one year, within which he was promoted to the rank of 
captain.  Soon after the signing of the armistice further distinction came to 
him in his promotion to the office of major in the Dental Corps.  Upon his 
return to the United States he was ordered to Fort Sheridan, whence he was 
transferred to the Maxsillo Facial Department at Jefferson Barracks, where he 
remained until he received his honorable discharge, he having been mustered 
out July 1, 1920.  He returned to Elkins, West Virginia, but shortly 
afterward removed to Morgantown, where he has a well equipped office and is 
engaged actively in the work of his profession.  The Doctor is a member of 
the American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Kiwanis Club of 
Morgantown.

Doctor Barnard married Miss Winnifred Martha Gross, daughter of Cecil Gross, 
a representative lumberman at Elkins, this state, and they have a winsome 
little daughter, Nancy Gray.