History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 507.
[Bourbon County]  [Millersburg Precinct]

JOSHUA BARTON, farmer and distiller; P. O. Millersburg; was born at
Black's Cross Roads, March 4, 1835, to Abraham and Catharine (Cumbers)
Barton, both of whom are still living, and were born in 1804. Abraham
is a son of Joshua; a Marylander; Abraham's family consisted of nine
children, four of whom died in infancy.  Nancy C. (deceased) was the wife
of William P. Knight, by whom she left one child, Mollie H., who resides
with the subject of this sketch.  Those living are: Mary, the eldest, widow
of John W. Bowen, a resident of Nicholas County; Joshua; Emerine, wife of
Thomas Fisher, of Bourbon County, and Sue, the wife of Esquire Amos
Jameson, near Millersburg.  Mr. Barton assisted his father in farming and
the manufacture of whiskey until his twenty-ninth year, having in the
meantime received a common school education.  In 1862, Nov. 4, he was
married to Miss Jessie V. Paul, of Bourbon County; and daughter of Daniel
and Adeline (Morgan) Paul, of Mason County; the ancestry of the former
from Virginia; the latter from Maryland.  By this marriage there are five
children: William F., born Aug. 23, 1863; Albert S., Sept. 5, 1865; Orra
F., December 22, 1867; Ida B., Jan 12, 1872; and Virgil L., Sept 1. 1873.
Mr. Barton is now extensively engaged in agriculture, distilling and
thoroughbred stock-raising.  His horses of the Hambletonian family,
principally colts, having been engaged in that branch of stock culture but
a short time.  He has a short-horn herd of about sixty head, at the present
time, having sold in the year 1881, about forty head of the most popular
strains, among them the 5th Lord of Oxford.  The principal families making
up his present herd, are of the Barringtons, Wattertons, Hilpas, Knightlys,
Peris, Princesses, and many others of the most popular blooded stock. Mr.
Barton has long been one of the foremost short-breeders of the Blue Grass
region.  He is a member of the Masonic order, and prominent business man.

Barton Cumbers Knight Bowen Fisher Jameson Paul Morgan
=
Nicholas-KY VA MD

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