Q:Facts: - death place: buffalo , new york - caption: portrait of hiram barton - term: 1849 -- 1850 , 1852 -- 1853 - successor: james wadsworth ; eli cook - party: whig - death date: 10 february 1880 - predecessor: orlando allen ; henry k. smith - office: mayor of buffalo - spouse: lucy ann clark - children: josephine - birth date: may 20 , 1810 - name: hiram barton - image: 1849bartons.jpg - birth place: hebron , new york Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of hiram barton .
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hiram barton -lrb- 1810 -- 1880 -rrb- was mayor of the city of buffalo , new york , serving 1849 -- 1850 and 1852 -- 1853 .he was born in hebron , new york on may 20 , 1810 .he attended middlebury college in vermont , where he studied law .he moved to buffalo in 1835 and formed a law partnership .in 1840 , he married lucy ann clark of buffalo .in 1843 barton was elected alderman of the third ward , and again in 1844 .he was elected as the whig choice for mayor on march 7 , 1849 .during his first term , cholera returned to the city and nearly ten percent of the population was stricken and three per cent died within a period of four and a half months .the city charter was changed to make the term of elected aldermen to two years instead of one .he did not seek a second term in 1850 .he was elected on march 2 , 1852 , to his second term ; the last time the whigs triumphed in buffalo his second term ended on march 8 , 1853 .he resumed his law practice until about 1875 , when he retired .barton died on february 10 , 1880 , and was buried in forest lawn cemetery .hiram 's wife , lucy , died at her home in franklin street , buffalo on 10 june 1881 and was survived by their daughters josephine , the wife of john howcutt who was then living at silver cliff , colorado and linda , the wife of f e eustaphieve of buffalo .