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Frederick A. P. Barnard

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from 1856 to 1861. He assumed office as President of Columbia University in 1864, where he presided over a series of improvements to the university until his death in 1889. He was also known as an author of academic texts.
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The Barnard Medal for Meritorious Service to Science was established in 1889 according to the instructions of his will, and has been awarded by Columbia University every five years, beginning in 1895.
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sympathies. During his time at the university he was subject to scrutiny from the board of trustees for taking the testimony of a slave against that of a student who had allegedly assaulted her.
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Johnson's new general cyclopaedia and copperplate hand-atlas of the world: combined and illustrated: being specially adapted for daily use in the family, school, and office, Volume 2
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No just cause for a dissolution of the Union in any thing which has hitherto happened; but the Union the only security for southern rights
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Barnard strove to extend educational privileges to women that were normally reserved for men, and the establishment of
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University, Court, and Slave: Pro-Slavery Thought in the Southern Colleges and Courts and the Coming of Civil War
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in 1854. In the same year he took up position as a professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at the
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Finding aid to Frederick A.P. Barnard papers at Columbia University. Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
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Barnard became a tutor at Yale following his graduation in 1828. He later served as a teacher at the
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Annual Report of the Directors of the New-York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb
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thereafter. He also filled the chair of English literature during his time at the university.
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He died on April 27, 1889, in New York City. In his will, the bulk of his estate was left to
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A History of the First Half-Century of the National Academy of Sciences: 1863–1913
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in 1828, where he pursued astronomical studies and was a member of the
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He was born on May 5, 1809, in Sheffield, Massachusetts. His brother,
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Presidents of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
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in various capacities from 1838 to 1854, where he was a professor of
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The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events
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New York Institute for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb
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Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
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Barnard himself served as a scholar of English and the
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The American Bureau of Mines—The Organization Complete
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The University and the Slaves: Apology and Its Meaning
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Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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in 1866, as a member of the Board of Experts of the
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and later as a general in the Union Army during the
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American Association for the Advancement of Science
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He also gained membership in the 31: 20: 392:History of the United States Coast Survey 832:Center for the Study of Southern Culture 310:; in 1862 he worked on the reduction of 214:who served as the superintendent of the 588:. American Academy of Arts and Sciences 583:"Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter B" 526: 867:F. A. P. Barnard Collection (MUM00519) 493: 439:campus, is partly named in his honor. 1460:American scientists with disabilities 778:"Barnard's History | Barnard College" 742:(1st ed.). 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President of Columbia University
Charles King
Seth Low
Sheffield, Massachusetts
John G. Barnard
Alma mater
Yale University
President of Columbia University
Sheffield, Massachusetts
Chancellor
University of Mississippi

Arnold Henry Guyot
John G. Barnard
United States Army
United States Military Academy
American Civil War
Yale University
Linonian Society
American Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb
Hartford, Connecticut
New York Institute for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb
University of Alabama
mathematics
natural philosophy
chemistry
natural history
deacon
Protestant Episcopal Church

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