Barnard, Alonzo, 1817-1905.

Alonzo Barnard was born in Peru, Bennington County, Vermont on June 2, 1817. He moved with his family to Ohio and was educated at Oberlin College. Recruited at Oberlin by Presbyterian clergyman Frederick Ayer for missionary work among the Ojibwe, Barnard was one of the founders of the "Oberlin" mission at Red Lake (1843). Several years later (in 1846), following a brief tenure at the Leech Lake mission, he started a mission at Cass Lake, where he was ordained (in 1847) by Ayer. In 1853 Barnard established a mission at St. Joseph.

Barnard moved to the Red River settlement ca. 1855; in 1858 he was doing missionary work among Indians residing near Lake Winnipeg. He left Canada in 1863 and settled in northern Michigan, where he was a missionary in the Traverse Bay area and lived in Benzonia; he died at Pomona (Mich.) on April 7, 1905.

From the description of Alonzo Barnard papers, undated, 1858-1899. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 313868520