Eusebius Barnard

Eusebius Barnard (July 13, 1802 – October 2, 1865) was an American farmer and station master on the Underground Railroad in Chester County, Pennsylvania, helping hundreds of fugitive slaves escape to freedom.

A minister of the Progressive Friends and founding member of Longwood Meeting House, Barnard championed women’s rights, temperance, and abolition of slavery.

He left Westtown without finishing his formal education and thenceforth focused on farming in Pocopson Township, where his stone farmhouse still stands today.

[3] From the early 1850s, Barnard was a member of the Locust Grove Lyceum, which met at the eponymous one-room schoolhouse to discuss literature, science, education, and issues of the day.

He and his sons and daughters provided shelter to hundreds of freedom seekers and, "at great risk to their own lives,"[5] guided them to their next station stop on the Underground Railroad.