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BARNETT, JOSIAH HENRY (1887-1974)

BARNETT, JOSIAH HENRY, principal of Harkins Academy and High School, 1919-41; b. Hartland, N.B., 21 Mar 1887, s/o John Barnett and Mary Adelaide Hillman; m. Illa Dymple Marston; d. Saint John, 12 Sep 1974.

After graduating from the University of New Brunswick (BA 1912), Josiah H. Barnett taught in several of the province's schools and served overseas with the Canadian forces in World War I as a gunner. In 1919 he was appointed principal of Harkins Academy, and after the new Harkins high school building was opened in 1925 he had administrative responsibility for it as well. The school had eighteen departments, or classrooms, in 1931, at which time the inspector was of the opinion that Harkins took second place to no school in New Brunswick.

Barnett resigned from both his principalship and the teaching profession in the summer of 1941 to join the staff of the Veterans Welfare Office in Saint John. He was employed as a welfare officer until around 1950. His death in a Saint John nursing home in 1974, at age eighty-seven, was reported to the vital statistics office by his son, J. H. Barnett Jr, of Come By Chance, Nfld, but evidently went unnoticed by the press.

Sources

[b/d] official death records / Advocate 12 Aug 1919; Can. Who's Who 1948 (re. John Barnett); Leader 8 Aug 1941; military records


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