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BARD

CAMPBELL

director. In September, 1871, more than
twenty-two years after first becoming associated with the Thames Bank, he resigned to
become a partner of Morris K. Jesup, of New
York City, in the firm of M. K. Jesup and
Company. In 1874, Mr. Bard become President of the Continental National Bank, New
York City. During 1878-1880 he acted as bank
examiner, or commissioner, for the State of
Connecticut. For the next few years he was
engaged in the railroad business as VicePresident of the New York, West Shore and
Buffalo Railroad, then in process of construction, but resigned when the road passed under the control of the New York Central. Mr.
Bard then returned to Norwich, where he had
always maintained his residence, and became
interested at various times in the Merchants'
National Bank, the First National Bank, and
the Thames Loan and Trust Company (all of
Norwich) as President and a director. For a
period of sixty-seven years (1854-1921) Mr.
Bard was associated with the Norwich Savings
Society, and during that time he filled the
offices of trustee (1854), director (1888),
Vice-President (1894), President (1901-1913),
and senior trustee (1921). He was an official
of the Norwich Bleaching, Dyeing and Printing Company, and after the merging of that
enterprise with the United States Finishing
Company, in 1899, was a director of that organization until 1913, and for many years
Vice-President of the Consolidated Company.
For several years he served as President of
the Mineral Range and Hancock and Calumet
railroad companies, of Michigan. Other industrial concerns of Norwich with which Mr.
Bard was associated as a director, were the
Richmond Radiator Company, the Otrobando
Woolen Company, the Yantic Woolen Company, and the Uncas Paper Company. Mr.
Bard was a life member of the New England
Society, in New York City. He was a member of the Park Congregational Church of
Norwich. Mr. Bard enjoyed an intimacy with
many men of prominence in business and
finance. Always a close student of conditions,
and endowed with exceptional judgment, discernment and analytical power, he was much
sought as a counsellor in the handling of intricate business problems. He was an indefatigable worker, and during his long business
life there was rarely a day when he did not
give his personal attention to the details of the
important enterprises for which he was responsible. He attained his place in American
business life wholly through his own industry.
On the occasion of his death, Rev. Dr. S. H.
Howe, who had known Mr. Bard for many
years paid him a beautiful and understanding
tribute, part of which is here quoted. "No
man among us touched so many business concerns as he has in his long career. No one
brought to business an intellect of greater
power or clarity of vision or was sought more
in consultation and counsel. We do not all
know the story of his earlier struggles or limitations, but we know that from boyhood he
was connected with the business concerns of
the city, and many out of the city, and we do
know that no other man brought to business
here a more thoroughly trained and disciplined

intellect or surpassed him in clarity of judgment or forcefulness of personality. His attention to details was painstaking to the last
degree." Mr. Bard married (first), 9 February, 1860, Eliza Perkins, daughter of Albert
Daniels, of Canandaigua, New York. She
died in 1870. Of their four children, two are
living: one son, Albert Sprague, of New York
City; and one daughter, Mary Foster, wife of
Robert Williams, of Boston, Massachusetts.
He married (second), 5 June, 1873, Ellen
Elizabeth Thacher, widow of Wareham Williams, of Norwich, Connecticut. She died in
1904.
CAMPBELL, William, metallurgist, b. at
Gateshead-on-Tyne, England, 24 June, 1876,
son of Thomas and Franciska (Albrecht)
Campbell. He is a graduate of the Civil
Service Department of King's College, London (1892); of St. Kenelm's College, Cowley,
Oxford, (1892-94); Durham University College of Science, (1894-97); and the Royal
School of Mines, London, (1899-1901). He
received the degree of Ph.D., in 1903 at Columbia University, New York City, and that of
Sc.D., in 1905. He has been demonstrator in
metallurgy and lecturer in geology at the Durham College of Science, England, (1898-99).
He entered Columbia University in 1903 as
lecturer on European geology and in 1914,
after an association of ten years with the department was appointed Professor of Metallurgy in' the School of Mines, Columbia. He
has also been Metallographer of the technologic
branch of the United States Geological Survey (1907-11) and of the Bureau of Mines in
the same department of the Government service (since 1911). Since 1913 he has been lecturer on metallurgy at the Post-Graduate
School of the U. S. Naval Academy. His
researches have been extensive and some of
the results of his investigations have appeared
abroad, notably in German scientific journals.
Among the considerable number of papers
published by him are "The Application of Metallography to Opaque Minerals" (1906);
"Change of Structure in Iron and Steel"
(1907); "Lead-Tin-Antimony and TinAntimony-Copper Alloys" (1913); "The
Metallography of Copper" (1915); "The Microscopic Examination of Opaque Minerals"
(1906); "The Microstructure of Iron and
Steel" (1912); and "A New Metallographic
Microscope." Extremely interesting are the
last mentioned works dealing with the microscopic examination of metals. That Professor
Campbell, even when treating of a strictly
scientific subject well understands how to write
in a popular vein is evident from his introduction to his "notes on the metallography of
alloys." "In the olden days the making of
alloys was an art, and the secrets of the craft
were jealously guarded. Today it has become
a science, though the old ideas in regard to
the secrets and formulas are dying hard. Modern progress may be attributed to scientific research and testing of materials, and the substitution of chemical analytical control for
cook-book methods. We know today a great
deal about the constitution of alloys, the reasons of the change in structure and physical
properties by heat and mechanical treatment;

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