BIO: Clement Edwin BARTON, Huntingdon County, PA

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McElroy, James Thomas Jr., McElroy's Family Memories, 
Huntingdon, PA: (Author), 1930, page 25.
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CLEMENT EDWIN BARTON
Mount Union, Pa.

Merchant:  The subject of this sketch, Mr. Clement Edwin Barton, has lived all 
his life in Huntingdon County, and was born at Shirleysburg, Pa., March 28, 
1872, and at Shirleysburg received his early schooling.  Thomas Nelson Barton 
was his father, and his mother was Mary Swinford before marriage.  Both are 
deceased, the father dying in 1906 and his mother in 1911.  For twelve years 
and four months he was in the government employ as postal clerk, at 
Shirleysburg, Pa.  He conducts a mercantile business at Mount Union, Pa.  Also 
carries in stock flowers of all kinds, and Barton's flowers are much in demand.  
He has served as Secretary to the Board of School Directors, Board of Auditors 
of Shirley township; also has served for six years on the election board of 
Mount Union, Pa.  He was a deacon in the Baptist Church and Superintent of the 
Sunday School at Shirleysburg, and at present he is a Presbyterian and attends 
the Bible Class and Sunday School.  In 1924 he was a candidate for County 
Commissioner.  Republican in politics.  He has two brothers:  B. C. Barton, of 
Shirleysburg; Thomas Barton, of Turtle Creek, Pa., and one sister, deceased.  
Mr. Barton was married to Jessie Myers, a daughter of Leslie Myers, deceased, 
of Mount Union, Pa.  The children are Florence, married to Dr. Clyde Huber, at 
present on the faculty of Rutgers University; Lawrence C. with the Workman's 
Compensation Board, Harrisburg, Pa., and Charles, at home.  Mr. Barton enjoys a 
lucrative trade, which increases more and more as the years go by.