Barton, W. C.

BARTON

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 11/4/2008 at 13:38:45

W. C. Barton

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.239, Valley Twp.)
W. C. Barton, farming, P. O. Hancock, was born in New York State in 1833, son of James and Dorcas (Akley) Barton; he was a lumberman and farmer, and died in Wisconsin in 1861; she died in Wisconsin, and was the mother of fourteen children, five of whom are dead. Mr. Barton received an ordinary education in his native State, and then engaged in farming till he became twenty-one years of age, when he moved to Wisconsin and engaged in farming till 1867, when he came to Mitchell County, Iowa, thence to his present place in Pottawattamie County. Mr. Barton's farm consists of 650 acres was, when he bought it, wild prairie; now it is in a good state of cultivation, and has excellent buildings erected upon it. Mr. Barton's property is entirely self-acquired; he has an orchadr of about 300 trees and quite a vineyard; he raises considerable stock, having on hand at present about one hundred head of cattle. Mr. Barton was married, in Wisconsin, in 1857, to Diantha Dewey, born in Vermont, daughter of Horace and Sophia (Felt) Dewey, he a native of Vermont and she of Massachusetts. Mr. and Mrs. Barton are the parents of five children - Marion L., Rosa, Aaron, Roscoe and Florence, all at home, except the eldest son, who is married and lives in Knox Township, where he owns and conducts a farm. Mr. Barton is one of the most successful farmers of Valley Township. Politically, he is a Republican.