James Barron is the father of Alexander Barron. James is listed on this stone; however, no marker has been found yet for Alexander.
It appears that originally Alexander Barron had a shared iron marker with his name and that of his wife, Elizabeth Anne. However, that marker was broken in half, and only the half with Elizabeth's name now remains. See marker for Viola Barron.
Alexander Barron was the editor of the Kirwin Globe newspaper which was published for only a short period around 1899. Also Alexander was the postmaster for Kirwin, Kansas, for a time.
Alexander Barron
Our little city was shocked Monday when the word was passed about that Alexander Barron had died that morning at 2:00 o'clock.
He was born in Ontario, Canada, April 14, 1843, and was 79 years, 2 months and 12 days of age at the time of his death at Topeka, Kansas, where he had been taken last Thursday for treatment.
On November 6, 1867, he was married to Elizabeth Cornfield. To them were born seven children, five of whom, with their mother, survive Mr. Barron. The surviving children are:
Will of Phillipsburg
Jim of Colorado Springs, Colorado
Bert of Kensington
Roy of Kensington
Eva of Kirwin.
There are 8 grandchildren.
In 1870 Mr. Barron and family came to Kansas and homesteaded in Smith County January 1872. In 1891 he moved to Kirwin where he published a paper for a few years when he was appointed postmaster. He held that office for 13 years leaving the same in 1914.
Since early life he has been a member of the Methodist Church and was a member of the Masonic Fraternity and of the Ancient Order of United Workmen.
The remains arrived from Topeka Tuesday night and brief services were held at his late home this afternoon at 2 o'clock conducted by Revs. E. A. Blakesley and J. L. Read. Interment was in the Kirwin Cemetery.
June 28, 1922-Kirwin Kansan
Almost 17 years
It is almost seventeen years since Alexander Barron was first installed as Postmaster of Kirwin. Last week he checked in the new Postmaster, J. J. Landes, and turned over the office to him. Seventeen years is a good while for a man to serve the public, and the post office is a place where a man is subject to pretty severe criticism, and we are convinced that Mr. Barron has given the people as careful and painstaking service as anyone could for the same length of time. The KANSAN office desires to express its appreciation of the many little accommodations he has shown us during the 13 years we have been in business and a patron of the office.
During the period the office has been moved twice. At first it was in the frame building now belonging to J. M. Tinney on the northeast corner of the square. It was later moved into a frame building which stood where the present Ewing Cement building stands near the southeast corner of the square then when the Gudger building was built the Government made a ten year lease for the building where it is located now. When the change was made new fixtures were put in and we now have a post office with furniture and fixtures of which we may well feel proud. All three rural routes were established during Mr. Barron's term.
Mr. Landes has appointed Miss Lillie Weaver as his assistant and they have full charge of the office now and will continue to serve the public, dealing out postage stamps and money orders to all comers selling them as cheap as you can buy them anywhere in this country.
March 18, 1914--Kirwin Kansan
Wedding Anniversary
Last Sunday Will Barron and wife, J. W. Barron and family, C. E. Hamilton and family and Mrs. Mable Dickinson and Ethel assembled at the home of Alexander Barron to help celebrate their 43rd wedding anniversary. This was not a formal affair but it happened that the day fell on Sunday and so these members of the family got together in honor of the occasion. Of course they had a good time.
Kirwin Kansan--November 9, 1910
It appears that originally Alexander Barron had a shared iron marker with his name and that of his wife, Elizabeth Anne. However, that marker was broken in half, and only the half with Elizabeth's name now remains. See marker for Viola Barron.
Alexander Barron was the editor of the Kirwin Globe newspaper which was published for only a short period around 1899. Also Alexander was the postmaster for Kirwin, Kansas, for a time.
Alexander Barron
Our little city was shocked Monday when the word was passed about that Alexander Barron had died that morning at 2:00 o'clock.
He was born in Ontario, Canada, April 14, 1843, and was 79 years, 2 months and 12 days of age at the time of his death at Topeka, Kansas, where he had been taken last Thursday for treatment.
On November 6, 1867, he was married to Elizabeth Cornfield. To them were born seven children, five of whom, with their mother, survive Mr. Barron. The surviving children are:
Will of Phillipsburg
Jim of Colorado Springs, Colorado
Bert of Kensington
Roy of Kensington
Eva of Kirwin.
There are 8 grandchildren.
In 1870 Mr. Barron and family came to Kansas and homesteaded in Smith County January 1872. In 1891 he moved to Kirwin where he published a paper for a few years when he was appointed postmaster. He held that office for 13 years leaving the same in 1914.
Since early life he has been a member of the Methodist Church and was a member of the Masonic Fraternity and of the Ancient Order of United Workmen.
The remains arrived from Topeka Tuesday night and brief services were held at his late home this afternoon at 2 o'clock conducted by Revs. E. A. Blakesley and J. L. Read. Interment was in the Kirwin Cemetery.
June 28, 1922-Kirwin Kansan
Almost 17 years
It is almost seventeen years since Alexander Barron was first installed as Postmaster of Kirwin. Last week he checked in the new Postmaster, J. J. Landes, and turned over the office to him. Seventeen years is a good while for a man to serve the public, and the post office is a place where a man is subject to pretty severe criticism, and we are convinced that Mr. Barron has given the people as careful and painstaking service as anyone could for the same length of time. The KANSAN office desires to express its appreciation of the many little accommodations he has shown us during the 13 years we have been in business and a patron of the office.
During the period the office has been moved twice. At first it was in the frame building now belonging to J. M. Tinney on the northeast corner of the square. It was later moved into a frame building which stood where the present Ewing Cement building stands near the southeast corner of the square then when the Gudger building was built the Government made a ten year lease for the building where it is located now. When the change was made new fixtures were put in and we now have a post office with furniture and fixtures of which we may well feel proud. All three rural routes were established during Mr. Barron's term.
Mr. Landes has appointed Miss Lillie Weaver as his assistant and they have full charge of the office now and will continue to serve the public, dealing out postage stamps and money orders to all comers selling them as cheap as you can buy them anywhere in this country.
March 18, 1914--Kirwin Kansan
Wedding Anniversary
Last Sunday Will Barron and wife, J. W. Barron and family, C. E. Hamilton and family and Mrs. Mable Dickinson and Ethel assembled at the home of Alexander Barron to help celebrate their 43rd wedding anniversary. This was not a formal affair but it happened that the day fell on Sunday and so these members of the family got together in honor of the occasion. Of course they had a good time.
Kirwin Kansan--November 9, 1910
James Barron is the father of Alexander Barron. James is listed on this stone; however, no marker has been found yet for Alexander.
It appears that originally Alexander Barron had a shared iron marker with his name and that of his wife, Elizabeth Anne. However, that marker was broken in half, and only the half with Elizabeth's name now remains. See marker for Viola Barron.
Alexander Barron was the editor of the Kirwin Globe newspaper which was published for only a short period around 1899. Also Alexander was the postmaster for Kirwin, Kansas, for a time.
Alexander Barron
Our little city was shocked Monday when the word was passed about that Alexander Barron had died that morning at 2:00 o'clock.
He was born in Ontario, Canada, April 14, 1843, and was 79 years, 2 months and 12 days of age at the time of his death at Topeka, Kansas, where he had been taken last Thursday for treatment.
On November 6, 1867, he was married to Elizabeth Cornfield. To them were born seven children, five of whom, with their mother, survive Mr. Barron. The surviving children are:
Will of Phillipsburg
Jim of Colorado Springs, Colorado
Bert of Kensington
Roy of Kensington
Eva of Kirwin.
There are 8 grandchildren.
In 1870 Mr. Barron and family came to Kansas and homesteaded in Smith County January 1872. In 1891 he moved to Kirwin where he published a paper for a few years when he was appointed postmaster. He held that office for 13 years leaving the same in 1914.
Since early life he has been a member of the Methodist Church and was a member of the Masonic Fraternity and of the Ancient Order of United Workmen.
The remains arrived from Topeka Tuesday night and brief services were held at his late home this afternoon at 2 o'clock conducted by Revs. E. A. Blakesley and J. L. Read. Interment was in the Kirwin Cemetery.
June 28, 1922-Kirwin Kansan
Almost 17 years
It is almost seventeen years since Alexander Barron was first installed as Postmaster of Kirwin. Last week he checked in the new Postmaster, J. J. Landes, and turned over the office to him. Seventeen years is a good while for a man to serve the public, and the post office is a place where a man is subject to pretty severe criticism, and we are convinced that Mr. Barron has given the people as careful and painstaking service as anyone could for the same length of time. The KANSAN office desires to express its appreciation of the many little accommodations he has shown us during the 13 years we have been in business and a patron of the office.
During the period the office has been moved twice. At first it was in the frame building now belonging to J. M. Tinney on the northeast corner of the square. It was later moved into a frame building which stood where the present Ewing Cement building stands near the southeast corner of the square then when the Gudger building was built the Government made a ten year lease for the building where it is located now. When the change was made new fixtures were put in and we now have a post office with furniture and fixtures of which we may well feel proud. All three rural routes were established during Mr. Barron's term.
Mr. Landes has appointed Miss Lillie Weaver as his assistant and they have full charge of the office now and will continue to serve the public, dealing out postage stamps and money orders to all comers selling them as cheap as you can buy them anywhere in this country.
March 18, 1914--Kirwin Kansan
Wedding Anniversary
Last Sunday Will Barron and wife, J. W. Barron and family, C. E. Hamilton and family and Mrs. Mable Dickinson and Ethel assembled at the home of Alexander Barron to help celebrate their 43rd wedding anniversary. This was not a formal affair but it happened that the day fell on Sunday and so these members of the family got together in honor of the occasion. Of course they had a good time.
Kirwin Kansan--November 9, 1910
It appears that originally Alexander Barron had a shared iron marker with his name and that of his wife, Elizabeth Anne. However, that marker was broken in half, and only the half with Elizabeth's name now remains. See marker for Viola Barron.
Alexander Barron was the editor of the Kirwin Globe newspaper which was published for only a short period around 1899. Also Alexander was the postmaster for Kirwin, Kansas, for a time.
Alexander Barron
Our little city was shocked Monday when the word was passed about that Alexander Barron had died that morning at 2:00 o'clock.
He was born in Ontario, Canada, April 14, 1843, and was 79 years, 2 months and 12 days of age at the time of his death at Topeka, Kansas, where he had been taken last Thursday for treatment.
On November 6, 1867, he was married to Elizabeth Cornfield. To them were born seven children, five of whom, with their mother, survive Mr. Barron. The surviving children are:
Will of Phillipsburg
Jim of Colorado Springs, Colorado
Bert of Kensington
Roy of Kensington
Eva of Kirwin.
There are 8 grandchildren.
In 1870 Mr. Barron and family came to Kansas and homesteaded in Smith County January 1872. In 1891 he moved to Kirwin where he published a paper for a few years when he was appointed postmaster. He held that office for 13 years leaving the same in 1914.
Since early life he has been a member of the Methodist Church and was a member of the Masonic Fraternity and of the Ancient Order of United Workmen.
The remains arrived from Topeka Tuesday night and brief services were held at his late home this afternoon at 2 o'clock conducted by Revs. E. A. Blakesley and J. L. Read. Interment was in the Kirwin Cemetery.
June 28, 1922-Kirwin Kansan
Almost 17 years
It is almost seventeen years since Alexander Barron was first installed as Postmaster of Kirwin. Last week he checked in the new Postmaster, J. J. Landes, and turned over the office to him. Seventeen years is a good while for a man to serve the public, and the post office is a place where a man is subject to pretty severe criticism, and we are convinced that Mr. Barron has given the people as careful and painstaking service as anyone could for the same length of time. The KANSAN office desires to express its appreciation of the many little accommodations he has shown us during the 13 years we have been in business and a patron of the office.
During the period the office has been moved twice. At first it was in the frame building now belonging to J. M. Tinney on the northeast corner of the square. It was later moved into a frame building which stood where the present Ewing Cement building stands near the southeast corner of the square then when the Gudger building was built the Government made a ten year lease for the building where it is located now. When the change was made new fixtures were put in and we now have a post office with furniture and fixtures of which we may well feel proud. All three rural routes were established during Mr. Barron's term.
Mr. Landes has appointed Miss Lillie Weaver as his assistant and they have full charge of the office now and will continue to serve the public, dealing out postage stamps and money orders to all comers selling them as cheap as you can buy them anywhere in this country.
March 18, 1914--Kirwin Kansan
Wedding Anniversary
Last Sunday Will Barron and wife, J. W. Barron and family, C. E. Hamilton and family and Mrs. Mable Dickinson and Ethel assembled at the home of Alexander Barron to help celebrate their 43rd wedding anniversary. This was not a formal affair but it happened that the day fell on Sunday and so these members of the family got together in honor of the occasion. Of course they had a good time.
Kirwin Kansan--November 9, 1910
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