Barton County, Missouri
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Barton County is named for David Barton, an early US Senator from Missouri. The waymark is centered on the Barton County Courthouse, a two-story Romanesque red brick building located at 1004 Gulf Street in Lamar, Missouri.
Waymark Code: WMYAAG
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 05/19/2018
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The Person:
From the Wikipedia Entry on David Barton:
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"David Barton (December 14, 1783 – September 28, 1837) was one of the first U.S. senators from Missouri, serving 1821–1831.
Barton was born near Greeneville, Tennessee, then part of North Carolina. He moved to St. Louis in 1809. In 1812, he joined Nathan Boone's company of mounted rangers. Later stints with the rangers helped to make Barton popular in the region.
He became a major political presence in early Missouri, serving as attorney general, president of the state's constitutional convention, speaker of the Missouri territorial House of Representatives, and as one of its first pair of U.S. Senators. Barton County, Missouri is named for him.
He was the brother of Joshua Barton, the first Missouri Secretary of State. David opposed the reappointment of William Rector to the Office of Surveyor General for Missouri, Illinois and Arkansas, saying that Rector was using his relatives for surveying positions and paying them too much while Rector was surveying the Louisiana Purchase. Joshua published the charges in the St. Louis Republican under the signature of "Philo." Rector's brother Thomas Rector challenged Joshua to a duel in 1823 on Bloody Island (Mississippi River) and killed Joshua. President James Monroe did not reappoint Rector.
Barton switched parties three times in his political life. He was first elected as a Democratic-Republican; he then switched to an Adams Democrat for his re-election in 1825. When he ran for the Senate again in 1830 he switched to being an Anti-Jacksonian candidate. In the Senate, he served as chairman of the committee on public lands. He was a member of the Missouri State Senate in 1834-1835."
The Place:
From the Wikipedia page for Barton County, Missouri:
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"Barton County is a county located in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the population was 12,402. Its county seat is Lamar. The county was organized in 1855 and named after U.S. Senator David Barton from Missouri.
President Harry S. Truman was born in Barton County in 1884.
The female bandit, Little Britches, the companion in crime of Cattle Annie, was born in Barton County in 1879.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 597 square miles (1,550 km2), of which 592 square miles (1,530 km2) is land and 4.8 square miles (12 km2) (0.8%) is water."