From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY,"  Vol. I, page 671.
Brant & Fuller, 1890.


JOHN C. BARDELL

John C. Bardell, a prominent manufacturer of Moundsville, W.Va., was 
born April 14, 1839, the son of John and Rachel (Hass) Bardell, both 
natives of Germany, who came to this country in 1839.  During their 
two months' voyage on the ocean, the subject of this mention was 
born. His father died August 29, 1888, aged seventy-six years, and 
the mother died in 1852, aged thirty-nine.  Of the nine children born 
to them, five are now living.  John C. Bardell's parents were poor, 
and he did not have the advantage of a thorough education in his 
youth.  At the age of nineteen years he began to learn the trade of a 
whip manufacturer, at Wellsville, Penn., and in 1859, such was his 
efficiency, he was sent by his firm, that of Wells, Riddle & Co., to 
Allegheny city to establish a manufacturing establishment at the 
House of Refuge.  He remained with that firm until 1864, when he 
became one of the firm of E. Weaver & Co., at Allegheny city, and 
remained there until 1873, when they removed to the Western 
Penitentiary, of Pennsylvania, the firm name then becoming Weaver & 
Bardall.  In September, 1877, they located at Moundsville, where 
their industry has grown to mammoth proportions, their product going 
to all parts of the continent, and everywhere justifying the award to 
them by the centennial commissioners of a gold medal as  "well-made, 
strong and serviceable.".  Mr. Bardell is also connected with the 
coal industry at Moundsville as a charter member of the company, has 
interests in the Marshall county bank, and in the Citizens' Natural 
Gas company of Beaver, Penn., in which county his firm has 200 acres 
of land, has valuable property in St. Paul, Wheeling, coal and fire 
clay lands in Jefferson county, besides property in Moundsville.  
This firm has a tannery in Pittsburgh, for the supply of their 
manufactory.  In the successful operation of all these interests, the 
excellent business talents and solid qualifications of Mr. Bardall 
are an important factor, and few men occupy a higher rank in business 
circles.  Socially, also, he is highly esteemed.  He is a prominent 
member of the Methodist Episcopal church, has been superintendant of 
the Sunday-school at Moundsville for the past nine years, was lay 
delegate to the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church 
at New York in 1888, and is a reserve delegate to the Ecumenical 
council of all denominations to meet in that city in 1890.  He is 
also trustee of the Conference seminary and trustee of its building 
committee.


(Linda Fluharty)