Frederick William Bardwell

Frederick William Bardwell (March 13, 1832–August 17, 1878) was a professor of astronomy, mathematics and engineering at the University of Kansas who led the 3rd U. S. Colored Infantry Regiment, raised in Philadelphia, during the American Civil War.[1]

Bardwell was born in Belchertown, Massachusetts, in 1832, in the Bardwell Homestead at a section known as the Bardwell Hollow, now part of Jabish Street. The Bardwell family developed an early ironworks here that was said to have produced materials for the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, laying the groundwork for Belchertown's later carriage industry.[2]

Frederick Bardwell was "fitted for college under the instruction of the then well-known sage and philosopher of Dark Corner, the late Ozias Norcross."

Bardwell died while on an expedition in Colorado to view an eclipse in 1878. He is buried in the Oak Hill Cemetery in Lawrence with his wife and two daughters.[5]

Bardwell published research papers in astronomy and a text book on arithmetic, a copy of which is in the Stone House Museum library in Belchertown.

References

  1. ^ McCarthy, Cliff (2010). Mysteries of Belchertown's History: Investigating Stories from Our Town's Past. Collective Copies.
  2. ^ "Belchertown Carriages". Made in the Valley. 2014-03-13. Retrieved 2025-11-27.
  3. ^ Belchertown Sentinel (newspaper), 23 September 1927.
  4. ^ a b "The Case of the Gallant Professor". https. Retrieved 2025-11-27.
  5. ^ Kansas, Lawrence City Cemetery Records, 1850-1988", database, FamilySearch.
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