OBITUARY. We notice the announcement in the papers of this morning of the decease of MRS. ESTHER SERGEANT BARTON. This excellent lady was well known to many of our citizens. She was a granddaughter of David Rittenhouse, the celebrated mathematician and astronomer. Mrs. Barton was a daughter of Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant, who was an active and earnest supporter of the Revolution, a member of Congress, and the first Attorney-General of Pennsylvania. Judge Thomas Sergeant, of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and the Honorable John Sergeant, for many years the leader of the Philadelphia Bar, and for fourteen years a member of Congress, were brothers of Mrs. Barton. The subject of this notice was married in early life to Dr. William P.C. Barton, who was known here and in Europe as a gentleman of high scientific attainments and as a learned and industrious author. He wrote a number of valuable works still quoted as standard treatises, was the first Chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, and at the time of his death was senior Surgeon in the navy. Mrs. Barton was, at the time of her decease, in the 81st year of her age. The Evening Telegraph, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Friday, 3 June 1870.
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Burial date 6/6/1870
Contributor: yorkies1 (47126442)
Burial date 6/6/1870
OBITUARY. We notice the announcement in the papers of this morning of the decease of MRS. ESTHER SERGEANT BARTON. This excellent lady was well known to many of our citizens. She was a granddaughter of David Rittenhouse, the celebrated mathematician and astronomer. Mrs. Barton was a daughter of Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant, who was an active and earnest supporter of the Revolution, a member of Congress, and the first Attorney-General of Pennsylvania. Judge Thomas Sergeant, of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and the Honorable John Sergeant, for many years the leader of the Philadelphia Bar, and for fourteen years a member of Congress, were brothers of Mrs. Barton. The subject of this notice was married in early life to Dr. William P.C. Barton, who was known here and in Europe as a gentleman of high scientific attainments and as a learned and industrious author. He wrote a number of valuable works still quoted as standard treatises, was the first Chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, and at the time of his death was senior Surgeon in the navy. Mrs. Barton was, at the time of her decease, in the 81st year of her age. The Evening Telegraph, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Friday, 3 June 1870.
Contributor: yorkies1 (47126442)
Burial date 6/6/1870
Contributor: yorkies1 (47126442)
Burial date 6/6/1870
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