Past and present of Greene County Missouri; early and recent history and genealogical records of many of the representative citizens . throughout southwestern who came within range of his influence were profuse in their praise ofhis admirable qualities, and the high regard in which he was always held,not only in commercial but in social life, indicated the possession of attri-butes and characteristics that fully entitled him to the respect and good willof his fellowmen, wliich were freely accrded by all with x\h,,ni he came incontact. Mr. Barton was born in St. Eouis, Missouri, Ma
Past and present of Greene County Missouri; early and recent history and genealogical records of many of the representative citizens . throughout southwestern who came within range of his influence were profuse in their praise ofhis admirable qualities, and the high regard in which he was always held,not only in commercial but in social life, indicated the possession of attri-butes and characteristics that fully entitled him to the respect and good willof his fellowmen, wliich were freely accrded by all with x\h,,ni he came incontact. Mr. Barton was born in St. Eouis, Missouri, March 29, 1844. He wasa son of Waite and Hannah fFrothingham) Barton. The father of thesubject of this memoir was born in New England and there grew to man-hood and was educated, and in an early day he came west and located inSt. Louis, Missouri. He was a member of the famous band of forty-niners, making the hazardous journev across the great western |.lains tothe California gold fields, and while in that state was a member of the notedVigilant Committee. His wife died in early life. abn„t 1848, but he li^•edto a good old JAMES H. GREENE COUNTY, MISSOURI. JTJ Upon the death of his mother, James Harvey Barton, then only fouryears old, was sent to the home of his aunt in Boston, Massachusetts, wherehe grew to manhood and was educated. When eighteen years of age heenlisted for service in the Union army, becoming a member of Company A,Forty-second Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, in which he served faith-fully and gallantly for three years, taking part in a number of the importantbattles of the war, and was honorably discharged in 1865. After the warhe joined his father in Quincy, Illinois, and made a trip through Kansas,then back to St. Louis. When the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad Com-pany built its lines west from that city he followed the construction with asupply store, which he continuetl until he reached Pierce City, Missouri,,where he engaged in the
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