The Biographical Dictionary of America/Barston, John L.

​BARSTON, John L., governor of Vermont, was born in Shelburne, Vt., Feb. 21, 1839; son of Heman and Lorain (Lyon) Barston. He engaged in business in Detroit, Mich.; returned to Shelburne, Vt., in 1851, and followed agricultural pursuits, until 1861, when he entered the Union army and attained the rank of major in a Vermont regiment. He was brigadier-general of state troops during the St. Albans raid 1864-'65; representative in the state legislature, 1864-'65; a state senator, 1866-'68 and U.S. pension agent at Burlington, 1870-'78. He was lieutenant-governor, 1880-'82; and governor of Vermont, 1882-84.

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