Background
Barnard, Kate was born in 1878 in Geneva, Nebraska, United States. Daughter of John P. (lawyer and civil engineer) and Rachel (Shiell) B.
Barnard, Kate was born in 1878 in Geneva, Nebraska, United States. Daughter of John P. (lawyer and civil engineer) and Rachel (Shiell) B.
Educational public schools, and Saint Joseph’s Academy, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Unmarried.
Began as teacher, public schools, Oklahoma. Represented Oklahoma as commissioner at World’s Fair, Saint Louis, 1903. Upon returning to Oklahoma devoted attention to assisting immigrants, then entering Oklahoma by the thousand.
In 3 years provided for 3,000 destitute families and placed many children in public schools, also organizing the unemployed.
Made tour of inspection through factories and slums of large eastern cities, and entered into systematic campaign, securing child labor, compulsory education and department of charities planks in new Oklahoma state constitution. Now commissioner of charities and corrections, Oklahoma Active in securing prison laws, juvenile court laws, et cetera, along advanced lines, also in effecting prison reform in Kansas and Arizona and in restoring $572,000,000 to Indians of Oklahoma from which they had been illegally deprived.
Delivered addresses before International Tuberculosis Congress, Washington, 1908, Governors’ Congress, Richmond, Virginia, 1913, and before many universities, colleges and societies.
Member American Academy Political Science.