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Title	John Bard
Creator	J. Curney & Son
Date.Original	1861?-1864?
Publisher.Original	J. Curney & Son
Description	Posing here as a young man, John Bard was born in 1819 to a distinguished family of doctors and educators. His grandfather and great-grandfather, Drs. Samuel and John Bard respectively, were preeminent physicians who practiced both in New York City and from their family estate at Hyde Park, NY. His father, William Bard was a lawyer who founded and administered the "Life and Trust Company" the first life insurance company in NYS. Together with his wife, Margaret Johnston Bard, a devout woman and a committed philanthropist, John Bard worked tirelessly to create local schools and churches for their community, both at their estate in Annandale, and in the nearby village of Tivoli (then Myersville). In the 1850's, they built Bard Hall at Annandale which was used as a chapel and a parish school for local children. They subsequently built the Church of the Holy Innocents in 1857, and rebuilt this a year later when the original was destroyed by fire. They also worked with James Starr Clark of Tivoli to build Trinity Church and School, which included a parish school in the basement , and then Trinity Academy, a school for young boys. In 1860, along with other like-minded men, they founded St. Stephen’s College, a training school for young men who intended to pursue careers as Episcopal Ministers. With the death of their only son Willie in 1868, the Bards, along with their three daughters removed to Europe, partially to escape the weight of their grief. Margaret died in 1875, but John Bard maintained an interest in the institutions he had helped found until his deathin 1899. He is buried in the Bard cemetery. In 1934, the trustees of St.Stephen’s College renamed the college Bard in honor of its founders who had transformed the cultural climate of the area.
Subject.LCSH	Portrait photography--United States
Subject.TGM	Philanthropists Portrait photographs
Personal Name	Bard, John, 1819-1899
Location	Annandale-on-Hudson (Hamlet) - Dutchess County - New York
HRVH Topic	People
Coverage	19th century
Format.Original	photograph;
Type	Still image
Source	Bard Family Papers, box 2, folder 1.
Resource Identifier	bc_bfpa.005.a
Publisher.Digital	Bard College Archives
Date.Digital	2006
Format.Digital	image/jpeg
Digital.Collection	Bard - Tivoli History Collection Bard Family Papers
Holding Institution	Bard College Archives, Stevenson Library, Bard College
Contact Information	1 Library Road, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504 (845) 758-7396 http://www.bard.edu/archives/digitalcoll.htm
Rights	Prior written permission required to use any photograph from the Bard College Libraries.
Technical Data	Archival TIFF - MicroTek ScanMaker 6800; Adobe Photshop Elements 2.0; dpi; 24 bit color; RGB; bytes ; pixels; no compression

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