Background

Barton, Edmund Mills was born on September 27, 1838 in at Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Ira Moore and Maria Waters (Bullard) Barton.

Education

Education public and private schools.

Career

Mercantile training in Boston, St. Louis and New York, 1857-1860. Relief agent United States Sanitary Common for 5th Corps, Army of the Potomac, 1863-1865. Assistant librarian, 1866-1883, librarian, 1883-1908, librarian emeritus since 1909, American Antiquarian Society.

Membership

Member American Antiquarian Society, American Library Association, American History Association, Massachusetts Library.

Connections

Married Abigail Twycross Blake, of Dresden, Maine, September 6, 1870.

Father:

Ira Moore Barton

Mother:

Maria Waters (Bullard) Barton

Spouse:

Abigail Twycross Blake