BIO: JOSEPH F. BARTON, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania

   

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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,

  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 230-231

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    JOSEPH F. BARTON, A. M., Sc. D., Vice-Principal and Professor of Natural

  Sciences of the Cumberland Valley State Normal School, at Shippensburg, is

  one of the leading educators of the State. He was born Oct. 11, 1851, at

  Derry Station, Westmoreland county, Pa., the eldest of the ten children of

  Baltzer E. and Nancy (Chilcote) Barton. The other children were: Dr. George

  C., who is Dean of the Medical Department of Hamline University and Professor

  of Gynecology of the same institution, Gynecologist to the Minneapolis City

  Hospital, to the St. Barnabas and Swedish Hospitals; Elijah, a prominent

  attorney of



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  Minneapolis, Minn.; Humphrey, one of the leading attorneys of St. Paul; John

  C., household decorator and furnisher at Seattle, Wash.; W. P. Barton,

  Secretary Board of Charities and Corrections and Superintendent of the Poor,

  Minneapolis; Rebecca, wife of William Bohn, of North Yakima, Wash.; Malinda,

  wife of W. B. Watt, of North Yakima; C. Albert, assistant manager Northland

  Pine Co. and Mississippi and Rum River Boom Co., at Minneapolis; and Adeline,

  who married W. B. Dudley, of North Yakima, Wash. Baltzer E. Barton, the

  father, died in August, 1895, but the mother still survives.

  

    While young Dr. Barton accompanied his parents when they removed to Fulton

  county, Pa., and there was educated in a private school until he became a

  student at Rainsburg, Bedford county. For two years after leaving school he

  engaged in teaching in both Fulton and Bedford counties, and was principal of

  the Hopewell public schools. In 1881 he had so gained the confidence of the

  public that he was elected county superintendent of Fulton county for a term

  of three years, and a merited re-election caused him to fill that responsible

  position for six consecutive years. At the expiration of this time, in 1887,

  he was elected a professor in the Cumberland Valley Normal School, in his

  second year being given the chair of Natural Science.

  

    Dr. Barton was well equipped for such honor, having graduated in 1874 from

  this institution, later taking the degree of A. M. at Mercersburg College,

  and the honorary degree of Doctor of Science in 1894, at Franklin & Marshall

  College, at Lancaster, Pa. He has long been classed with the State's

  scholarly men, and was one of a committee of three appointed to examine and

  pass upon school work from Pennsylvania sent to the World's Fair at Chicago,

  in 1893.

  

    Dr. Barton has been identified with the Democratic party, has served as

  chairman of the Democratic County Committee of Fulton county, and as a member

  of the Democratic State Central Committee. He fills many lecture engagements

  at the various county institutes in the State, in which work he is

  particularly happy and successful. However, a part of his vacation is always

  devoted to his relatives in Minneapolis, where he is a very much loved member

  of the home circle. There he has membership with the First Presbyterian

  Church. Fraternally, Dr. Barton is a Mason of high degree, being affiliated

  with Lodge No. 315, Shippensburg; George Washington Chapter, No. 176, R. A.

  M.; Continental Commandery, No. 56, K. T.; and is a member of Zembo Temple,

  A. A. O. N. M. S., of Harrisburg, Pa. He also belongs to Cumberland Valley

  Lodge, I. O. O. F.