Background
Barnes, Cassius Mcdonald was born on August 25, 1845 in Livingston Company, New York, United States. Son of Henry Hogan and Cemantha (Boyd) Barnes.
Barnes, Cassius Mcdonald was born on August 25, 1845 in Livingston Company, New York, United States. Son of Henry Hogan and Cemantha (Boyd) Barnes.
Educated Wesleyan Seminary, Albion, Michigan.
Telegrapher, Leavenworth, Kansas, at 15. Enlisted in the United States Volumes, at 16, in military telegraph and engineer corporations Private secretary to General Lyon.
Chief deputy United States marshal, Western District Arkansas, 1876-1886.
Receiver United States Land Office, Guthrie, Oklahoma Ty., 1899. Admitted to bar, 1893.
Member 3d and 4th legislatures, Oklahoma Ty., 1895-1897 (speaker, 1895). Governor of Oklahoma Ty., 1897-1901.
Mayor of Guthrie, 1903-1905 and 1907-1909.
Member 3d and 4th legislatures, Oklahoma
Married Mary East. Bartlett.