The Biographical Dictionary of America/Barnard, Charles

​BARNARD, Charles, author, was born in Boston, Mass., Feb. 13, 1838; son of C.F. Barnard, clergyman. As a boy he attended public schools and aided his father in his mission work at the Warren Street chapel. He studied for the ministry, but ill health forbade his completing his course, and for a short time he carried on a florists business. He then became assistant editor of the Boston Journal of Commerce, musical editor of the Boston Post, and head of the "World's Work Department" in the Century Magazine. He was made superintendent of instruction of the Chautauqua town and country club, a branch of the Chautauqua university. Among his amateur operas and dramas are: "The Triple Wedding," ​"Too Soon, "Eugenea," "The Dreamland Tree," and "Katy Neal." He also helped to write the play "We, Us and Co." His published books include: "My Ten Rod Farm"; "Farming by Inches"; "The Strawberry Garden"; "A Simple Flower Garden"; "The Tone Masters" (3 vols, 1871); "The Soprano" (1872); " Legilda Romanief(1880); "Knights of Today" (1881); "Cooperation as a Business" (1881); "A Dead Town" (1884); "Talks About the Weather" (1885), "Talks About the Soil" (1886); "Talks About Our Useful Plants" (16), and "Graphic Method in Teaching" (1889).