“John C. Bardall (1839-1925) was born at sea while his parents were emigrating to America from Germany. At the age of nineteen he began to learn the trade of whip manufacturer at Wellsburg, Pennsylvania. He worked for several whip manufacturers successively until 1873 when he helped establish the firm of Weaver and Bardall at the Western Penitentiary of Pennsylvania. In 1877 the firm located at Moundsville, West Virginia. The firm also operated a tannery in Pittsburgh for its supply of leather. Mr. Bardall had interests in the natural gas, coal and fire clay lands around Moundsville and Wheeling. He served for over a decade as superintendent of the Sunday School of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Moundsville. He was a lay delegate to the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church at New York City in 1888, and a reserve delegate to the Ecumenical Council of all Protestant churches which met in New York in 1890. He was a member of the building committee of the Simpson Methodist Church, Moundsville, in 1907, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the church until about 1915. He also helped to establish the Calvary andGlendale Methodist Churches.”
Plummer, K.M. (1965) A history of West Virginia Wesleyan College 1890-1965. [electronic] Retrieved from Internet Archive. Buckhannon, WV: West Virginia Wesleyan College.
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