Information from Kansas West card file (discarded): 1861 - born August 30 in Palmer City, IL to Rev. W.B. and Kate E. (Rohrer) Barton 1875 - conversion near Coyville, KS (November) 1876 - joined church, Neodesha, KS by Y.B. Barbon, Sr (do they mean W.B. Barton, Sr., his dad?) 1881 - exhort, Coyville (August 2) (presumably they mean he was licensed to exhort and preach at those quarterly conferences) 1886 - preach, Benton (June 16) 1887 - admitted on trial, Southwest Kansas Conference; Norwich 1889 -  full connection and deacon (March 15) (ordained by Bishop Vincent); Cullison 1890-92 - Cheney 1891 - elder (March 22) (ordained by Bishop Merril) 1893 - Mt. Hope 1894-97 - Douglass 1898-1902 - Pratt 1902-04 - Conference Treasurer 1903-05 - Dodge City 1906-07 - Larned 1907 - Dodge City 1929 - superannuated 1949 - died May 23 in Wichita, KS; memoir, Central Kansas Journal (p.277) 1960 - wife's memoir, Central Kansas Journal (p.171) married: Frances (d. October 19, 1959) children: Rev. Paul, Lavina Lawrence See also: Christian Adventure Stories (Vol.I, No.2; Vol.I, No.4; Vol.II, No.2)