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Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1922)

CEPHAS L. BARTON.
    The progressive spirit which dominates certain of the growing cities of
Arkansas has its root in the enterprise and laudable ambition of its business
men. Among the representatives of this class in Camden is Cephas L. Barton, the
general manager of the Coco-Cola Bottling Company and president of the Camden
Chamber of Commerce. He is recognized as a dynamic force in the business
development of the city and the advancement of its civic standards. Mr. Barton
was born in Boston, Massachusetts, October 10, 1888, and is a son of Isaac B.
and Anna E. (Anthony) Barton, the former a native of North Carolina, while the
latter was born in Georgia. They were married near Cartersville, Georgia, in
1876. The father was a planter in the south for a number of years, and in the
spring of 18S8 went to the eastern states to look over the country, but after
spending a year in Boston he returned to Georgia and continued to devote his
attention to farming and trading until about ten years ago, when he removed to
Atlanta, where he has since lived retired.

  Cephas L. Barton was educated in the Cartersville high school, and after
completing his studies secured a clerkship in the Park Hotel at that place,
remaining in the position for eighteen months. He then became identified with
the drug trade as a clerk in the Auditorium Pharmacy at Atlanta, Georgia, there
continuing for a period of three years, at the end of which time he accepted a
position with the Marshall & Pendegrast Pharmacy, with which he was associated
for two years. He next became identified with the Coco-Cola Company at Atlanta,
Georgia, and was sent to Arkansas as the state representative of that
corporation. In this important position he served for two and a half years, and
in June, 1917, he came to Camden, where he took over the management of the
Coco-Cola Bottling Company's plant. He entered upon the duties of the position
at a time when the business had declined to a low ebb through mismanagement and
was all but defunct. The enterprise was losing money heavily, and the company
was doing business in a rented ramshackle building. They had a team of mules and
an old horse for their delivery service. When Mr. Barton took charge new life
was infused into the enterprise, and the changes have been continuous. Today the
company does business in a new modern building, erected under Mr. Barton's
management, and the company now owns four automobile trucks, while other
equipment is equally modern and attractive. This is today one of the largest and
most successful plants of its kind in the state, due to the enterprise, energy
and keen business sagacity of Mr. Barton. In all business affairs he readily
discriminates between the essential and the non-essential, and his sound
judgment is manifest in the results which have been achieved.

    On the 29th of December, 1917, Mr. Barton was married to Miss Grace Tubbs, a
native of Atlanta, Georgia. Mr. Barton belongs to Camden Lodge, No. 1140, B. P.
O. E. He is the president of the Camden Chamber of Commerce and is one of the
city's most prominent and active business men. He readily recognizes the
opportunities in the field of trade and commerce, and he sees the weak as well
as the strong points in the matter of civic development. He therefore makes it
his purpose to oust the former and utilize the latter to the fullest extent, and
as head of the Chamber of Commerce he is producing excellent results for the
city's upbuilding, nor is he neglectful of the holier and higher duties of life.
He is of the Methodist Episcopal faith, while his wife has membership in the
Baptist church, and they are well known socially, enjoying the hospitality of
the best homes of the city.


Additional Comments:
Citation:
Centennial History of Arkansas
Volume II
Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1922


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