office was to appoint George S. Patton, later General Patton, to West Point. Family and later life Thomas R. Bard became a successful business man, and held profitable interests in several oil companies. Thomas R. Bard and his brother, Dr. Cephas Little Bard, established the Elizabeth Bard Memorial Hospital in Ventura as a memorial to their mother. His son, Archibald Philip Bard, became a noted physiologist and the dean of Johns Hopkins Medical School. He died at his Berylwood home in Port Hueneme, California on March 5, 1915 and was interred in the family cemetery on his estate. His remains were moved to Ivy Lawn Cemetery in Ventura, California by the military. See also Bardsdale, California Bard, California R. G. Surdam References Further reading Biographical Directory of the United States Congress Hutchinson, William Henry. Oil, Land, and Politics: The California Career of Thomas R. Bard. 2 vols. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965. Lawrence Kestenbaum. The Political Graveyard External links 1841 births 1915 deaths People from Chambersburg, Pennsylvania American people of Scotch-Irish descent Republican Party United States senators from California California Republicans County supervisors in California American businesspeople in the oil industry Businesspeople from California Founders of the petroleum industry Union Oil Company of California 19th-century American politicians People from Port Hueneme, California People of Pennsylvania in the American Civil War Union Army soldiers Burials in Ventura County, California Burials at Ivy Lawn Cemetery