Newaygo County MI Archives Biographies.....Barton, Mark August 14, 1844 - 
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Author: Chapman Brothers

MARK BARTON, farmer and lumberman, section 30, Big Prairie Township, was born 
Aug. 14, 1844, in Cook Co., 

Ill.  He is the sixth child and fourth son of the Hon. James Barton, Probate 
Judge of Newaygo County.  

(see sketch)

The parents of Mr. Barton brought him to the Peninsular State when he was but 
six months old and to 

Newaygo County when he was six years of age.  He was brought up as were the 
sons of the ealiest pioneers 

of Newaygo County, trained in the pursuits common to Northern Michigan and 
received a fair education.  He 

passed the winter after he reached the age of 20 years in the lumber woods, 
and in the following spring 

enlisted in Co. F., 15th Mich. Inf., as a soldier of the war for the Union.  
He received his discharge 

Sept. 9, 1865, and on his return to Big Prairie resumed his occupation as 
lumberman, which he has followed 

since, alternating the labors of that calling with those of farming.  He has 
twice exchanged his property 

in real estate, and now owns 60 acres of land in Big Prairie Township, 40 
acres in Everett Township, 

situated across the highway, and 40 acres in Everett, located one and a half 
miles south, making 140 acres 

in the aggregate.  Mr. Barton has 97 acres of land in fine farming condition, 
with good buildings.  He is 

a Republican in political connection and has been Town Treasurer four years.

Mr. Barton was married Dec. 16, 1864, in Newaygo, to Martha M. Krusen.  she 
was born July 22, 1845, in 

Licking Co., Ohio, and is the daughter of John and Eunice (Goff) Krusen.  The 
former was born March 16, 

1820, in New Jersey, the latter Jan. 27, 1824, in Licking Co., Ohio.  Mr. and 
Mrs. B. have one child, 

Albert Barton, born May 8, 1868.

Additional Comments:
1884 Portrait & Bio Album of Newaygo Co.

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