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.