Barton County KS Archives Biographies.....Button, Charles E. 1869 - 
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Author: Great Bend Tribune

CHARLES E. BUTTON

THE birth of Charles E. Button antedates that of Barton County by about two
years, because he was born Feb. 25, 1869, and was among the first organized body
of pioneers assembled on the townsite of Great Bend in the Spring of 1871. Thus
it happened that the two lives began almost simultaneously and their histories
are practically one and the same. Mr. Button first saw the light in Peoria
County, Illinois, and came to Barton County, Kansas, when but five years of age,
accompanied by his parents, Almon H. and Annie E. Button. They arrived in the
county in March, 1875, and settled four miles northwest of the farm described in
this sketch, and it was then that life really began for little Charles, because
his blood throbbed with the life of a new country. He saw Indians as they passed
and repassed his father's home; saw buffalo as they fed majestically on the
range, and saw his father bring them to earth with a trusty gun with popular
skill. The cowboy and his bucking broncho were the idols of his imagination and
he longed for the day when he could be trusted with a pony und gun to roam the
prairie and chase the Texas cattle as he saw them do. The stores then told of
"Dutch Henry" and his gang of horse thieves are still fresh in his memory, as
well as other frontier day yarns. He is a man who had a great deal to do with
the early day history of his part of the county. He has improved his home place
with exceptional skill and made of it one of the most attractive farms in his
township. Mr. Button has always taken an active part in the affairs of his part
of the county and is an enterprising and progressive citizen.

[photo, family standing in front] Charles E. Button's Residence


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Biographical History Of Barton County


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