CHARLES BARTON

He was educated in Toledo grammar and high schools and also attended Culver Military Academy. He then attended the University of Michigan until 1908. His M.D. was granted by Detroit Medical College (Detroit Homeopathic College) in 1909. Dr. Barton interned at Grace Hospital in Detroit, 1908-1909, and at Flower Hospital in New York from 1909 to 1910.

For several months in 1910 the doctor served as surgeon to an exploration party of the Madeira-Mamore Railroad Company in the upper Amazon valley. During the period between 1910 and 1911 he served as medical officer on the Hamburg-American Steamship Line. The remainder of 1911 and 1912 was spent on the staff of the Metropolitan Hospital in New York, and the following year he was appointed to the staff of the New York Ophthalmic College and Hospital in the same city. During 1913-1914 Dr. Barton served as first assistant to Dr. Royal S. Copeland, prominent ophthalmologist of New York. He was also able to attend various American and European eye and ear clinics.

Dr. Barton began his military service in 1913 by enlisting in the New York National Guard. In 1916 he saw service on the Mexican border with the 31st. Michigan Infantry, and in the following year, the doctor organized and commanded the American Red Cross Ambulance Company No. 8 in Detroit. From 1917 to 1919 he served as chief of ophthalmology at the Base Hospital at Camp Zachary Taylor in Kentucky.

While he was stationed at Camp Taylor, the doctor married Henrietta Martha Kiesow on October 21, 1917.

Dr. Barton entered private practice in Detroit in 1914 where he was visiting ophthalmologist at Grace Hospital from 1914 to 1915, and ocultist with the Detroit Board of Health the following year. In 1919 Dr. Barton came to Honolulu and served as oculist with the Hawaii Board of Health examining the eyes of school children throughout the Territory, a position he held until 1921. He was also engaged in private practice in Honolulu, specializing in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat.

In 1924 Dr. Barton got into difficulties over promoting an eye remedy called "Sparkles", and was suspended for unethical conduct by the Medical Society of Hawaii. Dr. Barton left the Territory in February of that year.

The doctor subsequently made his home in Los Angeles and served for a time as assistant city health officer.

Dr. Barton died December 30, 1944, in Los Angeles at the age of 63.

He was a member of the Medical Society of Hawaii, the American Medical Association, Honolulu Ad Club, American Legion, B.P.O.E. and the Beta Phi and Alpha Sigma fraternities.

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