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right or to the left did he deviate, unheeding illegitimate sympathy and party prominence.

Justice Barnard was an active member in clubs of educational qualification and patriotic promotion. He was president of the Shakespeare Club. He was champion of the feathered folks who travel in the sky; he delighted in their diverse melody and in their varied plumage, and he was high in the Society for their protection-the Audubon.

Justice Barnard's essays and papers included the religious and had wide scope, and were characteristic of his nature, the serious relieved with the light lines of

humor.

Justice Barnard became a member of the Columbia Historical Society at its fourth meeting, May 28, 1894, and a Vice-President February 12, 1906; and in the latter capacity presided with ease and courtesy.

Of every trait Justice Barnard will be happily remembered the most for his even and benign temper, for his unaffected ways, and for ready sociability.

Justice Barnard is gone. Memory, and pleasant, of him will, as long as it can be exercised, remain. The duration of the influence of his works cannot be measured.

To the family of Job Barnard the members of the Columbia Historical Society extend their heartfelt sympathy.

IN MEMORIAM: JOB BARNARD Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.

By WALTER C. CLEPHANE.

"There is little difference in the place we fill in life; the important thing is, how we fill it." This simple truth was uttered by Leslie M. Shaw in an address to the

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midshipmen at Annapolis. Its significance as attached to this paper consists in the fact that Judge Barnard clipped this address from the newspaper in which it was published and pasted it in one of his many scrapbooks, which from time to time he found so much joy in compiling and preserving. And perhaps this sentence may be an index to his character, for if any man seemed not to seek the high positions of the earth but to worthily occupy those which he was called upon to fill, it was he. The dignified office of Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, to which he was appointed, came to him, not because he aspired to it, but because the Bar of the District of Columbia with singular unanimity called him to it. Once elevated to the bench his sole effort was to so live that the judicial history of the District of Columbia might be richer because of his connection with it.

Just at the time of his receiving this appointment there was published in the "Outlook" an article dealing with the character of the ideal judge. Among the newspaper extracts contained in the scrapbooks, announcing his appointment, that article finds a conspicuous place. In it the writer says:

"I think that a man who goes into the judiciary should be consecrated-set apart from other men. His position is second only to that of the minister, and he should not be regarded in the same light as other candidates for political life. His whole life should be given up to the cause of administering justice."

Judge Barnard went a step beyond this. Such parts of his time as were not required for the duties of his judicial office and of his domestic circle, he used to increase the world's stores of knowledge and to enrich his

fellowmen by his religious activities. His was a nature of rugged strength, singularly and sweetly combined with. a passionate love of country and affection for his family and friends. No weak character could come of such ancestry as his. Both his paternal and maternal greatgrandfathers, Timothy Barnard and Joseph Mathy were Nantucket sea captains. When the limitations of age required Timothy Barnard to forego the sea, his pioneer spirit would not permit him to settle down in the little island which for so many years had been his home, but in the effort for larger and better things he migrated to North Carolina, taking with him his son Uriah, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch; and there Judge Barnard's father William was born in 1803. The same yearning for a broader horizon which had caused Timothy to settle in North Carolina now animated William Barnard, who took his part in the development of the great West, first in the State of Ohio, and later further towards the sunset into Indiana, where at Maple Arbor Tarm near Westville, Judge Barnard first saw the light of day on June 8, 1844.

As a boy he was not unlike others, attending school, and later the Valparaiso Male and Female College; and those old school days he never forgot, for to his dying day he kept the printed programs of his college exercises, and the compositions he wrote during that period, literary efforts no more promising than might have been expected, except for the fact that they were tinged with a vein of serious thought that is not always found in youth.

And then came the stirring days of '61 and '62. Judge Barnard was of Quaker ancestry, his father being of that faith. Stir a Quaker and he is stirred indeed! Every vibration of Job Barnard's heart responded to that clar

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