Fayette County PA Archives Biographies.....Barton, Joseph December 16, 1833 - ????
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Source: Gresham and Wiley, 1889: Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia, Fayette Co, PA, pg 132
Author: John H. Gresham & Samuel T. Wiley

Joseph Barton is a son of William Barton and Hannah 
Collins Foster Barton. He was born in the house where he now 
resides in South Union township, Fayette county, 
Pennsylvania, December 16, 1833.
    His father, William Barton, was a native of Bucks 
county, Penna, born September 13, 1795, and died November 6, 
1865. He was a son of William Barton Sr died November 30, 
1826, of the Quaker faith and English lineage, the latter a 
native of New Jersey, and came to German township, Fayette 
county, when William Barton was about twelve years of age. 
William Barton was well educated, and was employed in early 
life as a clerk and furnace manager. November 28, 1824, he 
was united in marriage to Mrs Hannah Collins Foster, widow 
of Captain John Foster (the last named a soldier of the War 
of 1812) and daughter of Thomas Collins of Uniontown. 
    Colonel Thomas Collins married Miss Mary Daugherty, 
sister of Dr Daugherty of Morgantown, West Virginia. They 
had two children: Ann Collins and Hannah Collins.  He was 
born near Winchester, Virginia, in 1741, and died at 
Uniontown November 3, 1813. His father was John Collins, a 
native of Ireland. 
    Unto their union were born four children, all now dead 
except for Joseph Barton. Mrs Barton was born October 28, 
1795, and married to John Foster. By this marriage she had 
two daughters: Jane Foster married Joseph Gray; Elizabeth 
Foster married Samuel Yarnell. 
    Her father, Thomas Collins, was a colonel in the War of 
1812, sheriff of Fayette county from 1796 to 1799, and a 
very popular man of his time. He died November 8, 1827. 
    William Barton removed to the old Collins farm in South 
Union, where he engaged in farming, stock-raising, and 
operating a distillery. He was a whig and afterwards a 
republican-was a school director for years and a man of 
strictest integrity in business. 
    Joseph Barton attended the common schools of South Union 
township, and was a student at Madison College for several 
terms. He enlisted 22nd of June, 1861, at the outbreak of 
the late war, in Company A, First West Virginia Cavalry, 
commanded by Captain William West, and served until 
September 12, 1864. The principal engagements he 
participated in were Carnifex Ferry, South Mountain and 
Antietam.
    Mr Barton has been twice married. His first wife was 
Miss Ruth Brownfield, to whom he was married January 1, 
1857; she was born October 23, 1834, and died January 10, 
1884. They had six children, four of whom are living: 
William Barton married Laura Todd; Priscilla Barton, Harriet 
Barton and Josephine Barton. 
    On September 21, 1884, he again married, his second wife 
being Miss Florence Shanabarger, daughter of George 
Shanabarger of Georges township.
    Mr Barton was one of the founders of A E Wilson Lodge, 
No 208, K of P. He is a member of Fort Necessity Lodge, No 
254, I O of O F, P O S A, and the Grand Army of the 
Republic. He has always been an active Republican and has 
filled the various township offices. He is intelligent, 
patriotic and an agreeable gentleman, and is the possessor 
of a large tract of well improved land. 

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