Henry E. Barnard

Henry Eells Barnard (March 2, 1837 – August 3, 1919) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

Life Barnard was born on March 2, 1837, in Plattsburgh, New York,

Barnard attended Plattsburgh Academy. He graduated from the University of Vermont in 1859. He read law in the office of Palmer & Armstrong, and then studied at Albany Law School, graduating from there in 1861. He initially practiced law in Iowa, first in Des Moines then in Boonesboro. In 1862, he became principal of the Iowa City public schools. He later returned to Plattsburgh and developed a law practice there.

Barnard was a member of the Freemasons, the Royal Arch Masons, the Knights Templar, and the Mystic Shrine. In 1869, he married Marianna Moore of Rouse's Point. They had two children, Charles and Harry. Harry drowned in the Saranac River on Christmas 1888, when he was 10. He was buried in Riverside Cemetery.