IN MEMORIAM. 



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SAMUEL BARNARD 



BORN 1837— DIED 1890. 



[Read before the Farmers' Institute at Table Rock, Nebraska, January 30, 1890, 

 by M. H. Marble.] 



A well known writer has said, " The man who makes two blades of grass grow 

 where only one grew before is a public benefactor." Viewing it in this light, 

 our friend who has so suddenly passed from amongst us must ever be considered 

 as a benefactor, not only to his neighbors, but to his fellow citizens of the state 

 at large. He was ever ready to lend a helping hand to all projects calculated to 

 ameliorate the human race. He had been a familiar figure in our agricultural 

 and horticultural councils for nearly a score of years. The following tribute is 

 paid to him by the Lincoln Journal: " Mr. Barnard was a man of ability and in. 

 tegrity. He stood foremost among the people of Pawnee county in encouraging 

 all things, making good society and good citizenship. He was one of the pio- 

 neers in fruit growing west of the Missouri river. His service to that industry 

 in this state has been so great that the history of fruit culture in Nebraska will 

 not be complete without extended notice of the labors and triumphs of Samuel 

 Barnard, of Table Rock." And the following from the Tecumseh Journal: 

 " Mr. Barnard was one of the best known horticulturists in the state, having 

 devoted the better part of his life to the raising of trees, etc. He attended our 

 institute two weeks ago and looked in his usual health, but complained to a 

 friend that he expected to be called off at any time by heart trouble. A good 

 man at rest." 



Mr. Barnard was a member of the state Legislature of 1879, and was active in 

 working for what he considered to be the interests of his constituents. 



Samuel Barnard was born in 1837, in Montgomery county, Ohio, of Quaker 

 parentage. He came to Illinois with his parents in 1810, and settled at Bloom- 

 ington. His father died when he was six years old, and his mother when he 

 was eight. He was educated at the Jubilee college, and at Eureka, in 1859, he 

 married Miss Anna C. Hoover, of Lacon, Illinois, He resided with his family 

 at Bloomington until the breaking out of the war of the rebellion, when he en- 

 listed in the Ninety-fourth Illinois Volunteers, and served until 1864, when he 

 had a stroke of paralysis, when he came home on a furlough. After partially 

 recovering he returned to his regiment, when he was discharged on account of 

 disability, and not subject to re-enlistment. From Bloomington he removed to 

 Forrest, Illinois, and settled on a farm, where he remained four years. Then, 

 with his brother, he built a woolen mill and began the manufacture of yarn and 

 woolen goods at Fairbury, Illinois, but owing to the depreciation in prices of 

 such goods at the close of the war, it took but three years to sweep away all he 

 had. In 1870 he came to Pawnee county, Nebraska, and in 1871 he removed his 

 family here, his future home. He was the youngest of eleven children, of 

 whom two died in infancy, and nine grew to manhood and womanhood — six 

 boys and three girls. Two brothers and two sisters survive him. One brother 

 and sister reside in California, and one brother and sister reside in Bloomington) 

 Illinois. He had three children, two sons and one daughter, who all reside in 

 and near Table Rock and survive him together with his wife. Two years since 

 he had a second stroke of paralysis while absent in California. Thursday, Jan- 



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