J. F. Barnard

    J. F. Barnard is a native Hoosier and was born in Tippecanoe County, December 27, 1849. After attending the district schools of his neighborhood, he went to school at Battle Ground, and later removed to Prairie Township, White County, where he engaged in farming and going to school at Brookston.

    In 1874, he removed to Fowler, where he has since resided, and where he has been employed as bookkeeper for O. Barnard & Co., and looking after his interest in the business of J. P. Smith & Co. He is one of the stirring men of Fowler, is a Republican, a member of the Blue Lodge in Masonry, and was married May 5, 1880, to Miss Mary H. Merrick, by whom he is the father of two children -Mary and George. Mrs. Barnard is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Source: Counties of Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. F.A. Battey & Co., 1883.