Sacramento County
Biographies
LOUIS GOVE BARTON
LOUIS GOVE BARTON.–The building
interests of Sacramento find a
worthy and progressive representative in Louis Gove Barton, who is a contractor
of long experience and is rated one of the most successful men in his line of
business in this section of the state. He was born in Seabrook, N. H.,
September 18, 1872, a son of David A. and Annie J. (Walton) Barton, descendants
of Revolutionary stock and both natives of New England, where they made their
home until 1900, when the removed to Sacramento, where the father is still
living the mother having died in 1921.
Louis
Gove Barton received his education in the grammar and high schools of Massachusetts;
then he learned the trade of carpenter and was engaged in building operations
there until 1905, when he removed to California
and for one year worked at his trade. In 1906 he purchased a ranch near
Isleton, and was very successful in raising asparagus for the ensuing eleven
years, when he sold his ranch to good advantage. He then returned to his
trade, engaged in general contracting and building, and many of the best
structures in northern California are of his construction, among them being
Foresters Hall, in Marysville; the Sutter high school building in Sutter
County; the Sutter County Hospital at Yuba City; the high school building at
Gridley; the Sisters’ school at Seventh and J Streets; the Merchants Bank
Building; and many fine residences and office buildings in the city of
Sacramento. Mr. Barton is also in partnership with Mr. Handlin
at 619 J Street, where they
conduct a store, having a large and complete line of painters’ supplies,
paints, oils and wall paper.
Mr.
Barton is a Republican in politics. Fraternally, he is a member of the Odd
Fellows, having joined the order in 1894; he is a thirty-second-degree York
Rite Mason and a Shriner, and also belongs to the
Merchants’ Club of Sacramento.
Transcribed 3-9-07
Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Reed, G.
Walter, History of Sacramento County,
California With Biographical Sketches, Page 493. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Marilyn R. Pankey.