El
Dorado County
Biographies
HIRAM BARTON
One
of the popular and respected citizens of El Dorado County, California, was the
late Hiram E. Barton, who was born at Latrobe, this county, April 5, 1867, a
son of Hiram E. and Margaret Ann Barton, both of whom came from New York State
and were pioneer settlers of El Dorado County.
Mr. Barton attended the common schools in his youth, and then engaged in
mining. Later, for a period of twenty
years, in company with his wife, he conducted the hotel at Shingle Springs,
California. During the last few years of
his life, however, he was an invalid, and the burden of conducting the hotel
fell upon Mrs. Barton, who prior to her marriage was Miss Daisy E. Russi. Mr. and Mrs. Barton became the parents of the
following children: Lelland Harrison,
who served in the United States Navy during the World War; Margaret, the wife
of G. Erbs, and who is a private secretary at Honolulu; and Rollie, who is in
government service. Mr. Barton was a
member of the Masonic fraternity, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the
Fraternal Order of Eagles, and was a charter member of the Native Sons of the
Golden West. In politics he was a Republican,
while his wife favors the Democratic Party.
Mrs. Barton is a member of the Order of the Eastern Star, the Rebekahs,
the Women of Woodcraft, and is a charter member of the Native Daughters of the
Golden West.
Anton
Russi, the father of Mrs. Barton, was born in Italy, November 21, 1845. At the age of fourteen years, he ran away
from home, stowed away on a vessel leaving for America, and eventually landed
at San Francisco, where he remained for a year.
He then came to El Dorado County, where he worked for a period, and then
started in the cattle business. He
homesteaded at Lake Tahoe, where he established the first dairy in the vicinity
of the lake. He attended school in
Italy, also in El Dorado County. Mrs.
Barton’s grandmother, Sarah Wallace, crossed the plains in a covered wagon, and
Mrs. Barton’s mother, Maria Louisa Wallace, was an early schoolteacher in El
Dorado County. She married Anton Russi
May 13, 1876. Mrs. Barton’s father died
August 20, 1891, and her mother January 14, 1926, and they are both buried at
Folsom, California. They were the
parents of eleven children, of whom two are deceased.
Transcribed by
Gerald Iaquinta.
Source:
Wooldridge, J.W.Major History of Sacramento Valley
California, Vol. 2 Pages 408-409. Pioneer Historical
Publishing Co. Chicago 1931.
© 2010
Gerald Iaquinta.
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