Walter Kenneth Barton

Brief Life History of Walter Kenneth

When Walter Kenneth Barton was born on 3 August 1914, in Preston, Franklin, Idaho, United States, his father, Walter K Barton, was 36 and his mother, Jeanette Maria Smith, was 26. He married Fae Wade Ward on 24 June 1936, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. He lived in United States in 1949 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1950. He died on 28 April 1962, in Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 47, and was buried in Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Walter Kenneth Barton
1914–1962
Margaret Lillian Schmidt
1908–1981
Marriage: 11 December 1944

Sources (24)

  • Walter K Barton, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Walter Kenneth Barton, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
  • Walter Kenneth Barton, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"

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1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress

Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.

1916 · Boeing Aircraft

The Boeing Aircraft was named and created by William Boeing. The first two planes were Bluebill and Mallard and the first flight was July 15, 1916. Boeing aircrafts made their debut during WWI. 

1927

Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from any of numerous places called with Old English bere or bær ‘barley’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’, i.e. an outlying grange. Compare Barwick . The name is also found in Ireland, where it has been Gaelicized as de Bartún.

Polish (Bartoń); Czech and Slovak (mainly Bartoň): from a pet form of the personal name Polish Bartłomiej, Czech Bartoloměj, Slovak Bartolomej, from Latin Bartholomaeus (see Bartholomew ). This surname is also found in Germany.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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