He lived in Kankakee at age 5 through age 13, and later in his life donated 100 of his studio plaster statues and studies for display in the Kankakee's old Central School.
He studied engraving, then sculpture, first at the Art Institute of Chicago, then at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris. In 1895 he married Edna Monroe of Boston and settled on the island of Manhattan. Mr. Barnard died in 1938 leaving Kankakee a rich legacy.
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