- SHASTA E. BARNARD, of Evansville, Rock County, is a member
of the well-known tobacco
- house of BARNARD & WILDER, and is a man of fine business
habits and unswerving integrity. By strict attention to the
work before him and reliable methods he has won a name and a
standing of which any man might be proud.
- Mr. BARNARD was born in the town of Porter, Rock Co., Wis.,
at the family home, four miles
- east of Evansville, and is a son of Elliott D. and Susan
(WEBB) BARNARD, both natives of the State of New York. The family
history and antecedents of the Evansville BARNARDs are fully
set forth in the biographical sketch of E. D. BARNARD, which
appears elsewhere.
- Shasta E. BARNARD, spent his childhood and youth on the farm
in Porter township, and grew
- to manhood with the privileges and opportunities of the farmer
boy for the acquirement of a sound physique and the accumulation
of a vital force that should last through a hard and busy lifetime.
He attended the district school and the seminary at Evansville,
and was engaged in farming until 1881. His father had moved
into Evansville the previous year, and was engaged in the tobacco
business with Thomas HUTSON. Shasta BARNARD became interested
in the business in 1881, and bought out the interest of Mr. HUTSON
some years later, the firm then becoming E. D. BARNARD &
Son. They continued in business until 1893, when the personnel
was changed by the retirement of the senior BARNARD and the entrance
of Mr. WILDER, so that it became BARNARD & WILDER. The new
firm owns extensive warehouses at Oregon and Madison, as well
as at Evansville, and is doing a large and increasing business.
Our subject is a stockholder in the Union Telephone exchange.
- On April 3, 1881, Shasta E. BARNARD married Miss Lilla C.
LEE, daughter of T. T. and Julia
- (LOWE) LEE, and they have had two children, Fred and Orland
K. Fred died when a boy of eight years. Mr. and Mrs. BARNARD
have an elegant and inviting home on West Main street, erected
in 1901. Mr. BARNARD is a member of Union Lodge, A.F. &
A.M; of the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias; and of the
Modern Woodmen of America. He and his wife were members of the
Order of the Eastern Star. Mr. BARNARD is a Republican in political
sentiment.
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- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin"
(c) 1901, pp. 126-127.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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