Barton County, Missouri Biographies - Moses L. Barth

History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties, Missouri, 1889.
 published by Goodspeed, 1889; Pgs. 855, 856

     Moses L. Barth, the leading clothier of Lamar, Mo., was born in Germany
 March 8, 1865, being a son of Solomon and Caroline (Lyon) Barth, also 
natives of Germany, where they are still living, the father being engaged 
in stock shipping and trading.  Moses L. Barth received an excellent German 
education, and, when fifteen years of age, started for America, and, after 
arriving in Columbia, Mo., entered the State university, which he attended 
one year in order to acquaint himself with the English language.  He then 
began clerking for his cousins, J. and V. Barth, in Columbia, and soon 
became head clerk.  In 1887, he came to Lamar, where he has the largest 
clothing and gents' furnishing establishment in the city.  He is a Knight 
of Pythias, a member of the I. O. O. F., and in his political views is a 
Democrat.  On the 15th of February, 1888, he was married to Pauline Barth, 
who was born in Germany, and came to America when ten years of age.  
Her parents reside at Boonville, Mo. 

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