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.
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 public and private schools.
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.
Member American Antiquarian Society, American Library Association, American History Association, Massachusetts Library.
Married Abigail Twycross Blake, of Dresden, Maine, September 6, 1870.