MARTIN IRWIN ELDER
DATE OF BIRTH: Nov. 17, 1912
Father:   MARTIN PASCHAL ELDER, age 34, born Michigan--Minister (Methodist)
Mother:   Emma (EMILY)  CATHERINE KINNEY, age 31, born Minnesota
RESIDENCE:  BARNESTON, KING COUNTY, WA
Doctor's address: BOTHELL, WA

RE: BARNESTON, WA - history
http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=2489
"The company mill town of Barneston,
was located in King County 40 miles southeast of Seattle...
Established in 1898, the town prospered along the Cedar River ... map
Barneston was razed in 1924...."
   " Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, passing right by the mill town,
would make possible direct shipment east over the Cascade Mountains.
   The mill was built, along with homes for the managers and workers.
On June 12, 1901, a post office was established, and the town took the name Barneston,
after John G. Barnes, then secretary and treasurer of the Kent Lumber Company.
Barnes owned most of the land.."
  "By 1910, the population of Barneston was 156, consisting of 105 single men,
and 51 people representing 13 families. Along with the mill and the homes,
the town had a public school, a company store, a bunkhouse, and a cookhouse.
The entire town site took up 80 acres of land."
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