Sacramento County Biographies

H. E. BARTON

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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NATOMA TOWNSHIP. 
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	Post Office, Latrobe, El Dorado County; lives on Deer Creek, ten 
miles from Folsom, and four miles from White Rock; was born in Schoharie County, 
New York, in 1832; removed, with parents, to Iowa in 1837, and lived there until 
1853; he crossed the plains in that year, and went up into Oregon; came to 
California in April, 1854, and settled in El Dorado County; was engaged in 
stock-raising there until April, 1866, when he moved to this county, and settled 
on his present place; is now extensively engaged in stock-raising and dairying; 
owns three hundred cattle and sixty horses; he carries on the dairy business in 
Lake Valley, El Dorado County, where he has five hundred and eighty acres, and 
where he drives his stock every summer; his stock ranch, of three hundred and 
twenty acres, is in Alpine County. Mr. Barton owns one thousand nine hundred and 
twenty acres of land; his land, with improvements, in this county, is worth 
about $20,000. He was married, in 1859, to Miss Margaret Skiffington, a native 
of New York City, born March 31, 1844; they have nine children seven sons and 
two daughters. A view of his place is given elsewhere. 
 
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.