H. Arnold Barton

His paternal grandfather was born in Djursdala parish, Kalmar, Småland county, Sweden and emigrated to America in 1867.

His paternal grandmother was born in Bollnäs parish, Hälsingland county and emigrated to America in 1889.

Barton has served on the boards of the Swedish-American Historical Society and the Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center.

[6][7] In 1985, Professor H. Arnold Barton was awarded the Charlotta Medal in recognition of his contributions to the Swedish Emigrant Institute at Växjö, Småland, Sweden.

[9] In 2000, he was made Knight-Commander of the Royal Swedish Order of the Polar Star by King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.

"A childhood acquaintance, greatly changed." Drawing from 1892, illustrating the transformation in North America of a young immigrant woman from Sweden, from Gustaf Sjöström's Jan Olsons Äfventyr , 1892. Reproduced in H. Arnold Barton, A Folk Divided: Homeland Swedes and Swedish Americans 1840-1940