BIOGRAPHIES: William E. BARTON, Maple Grove Township, Barron County, WI

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William E. Barton, who has lived in this county nearly forty years, and is
now farming 80 acres in Section 4, west, Maple Grove Township, was born in
Marshall County, Indiana, Jan. 16, 1862, son of Jacob and Millie (Harding)
Barton, natives respectively of Tennessee and Ohio. He received a meager
common school education, and was early made familiar with hard work. He
came to this state in 1883, locating in Barron County, where he was
variously employed, at farming, logging and in the mills. In 1888 he
purchased 40 acres in Section 22, west, Maple Grove Township. But he made
no effort to develop this place, and later sold it without improvements. In
1901 he purchased his present place. He cleared forty acres, erected a set
of buildings and, in general, brought the place to the status of a
successful, well-cultivated, well-kept farm. He has a good herd of graded
Guernseys with full-blooded sires, and a good drove of Duroc-Jersey swine.
Mr. Barton is a stockholder in the Barron Co-operative Creamery. For
several years he has done good work as a member of the school board of his
district. Mr. Barton was married Jan. 16, 1892, to Clara Watson, daughter
of Martin and Martha (Martin) Watson, early settlers of this township. This
union has been blessed with five children: Earl, born March 2, 1893, is in
railroad work at Detroit, Mich. Hattie, born Jan. 17, 1895, is now Mrs.
Owen Hall, of Barron, this county. Leo was born Dec. 31, 1900. Too young to
enlist in the World War, he waited until he was nineteen and then enlisted
in the regular army. He is a private in A. Troop, 4th Cavalry, and is
stationed at Brownsville, Texas. Edwin and Evelyn, bright twins, who are
doing well with their studies in the public schools, were born June 23,
1911.

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co.,
1922, pg. 340.