Nathan Oliver Lawton was born in 1868 in Lawton, Michigan, the son of Charles Dewitt Lawton and Lucy Lovina Latham. He attended the Michigan Mining School (now Michigan Technological University) in Houghton, Michigan, receiving his B. S. in 1891 and his E. M. in 1908. He went on to work as a chief mining engineer, mine superintendent, and consulting engineer in Arizona, Michigan, and Newfoundland.
To Mr. and Mrs. Lawton were born nine children: Charles Latham, general manager of the Quincy & Adventure Mining Company of Hancock, Michigan; Nathan Oliver, superintendent of the Miami mine at Globe, Arizona; Frederick Percy, a physician at Traverse City, Michigan; Swaby Latham, of the law firm of Hanchette & Lawton, at Hancock; Eugene Wright, of San Antonia, Texas; Margaret Brooks; Rebecca Estella; Marion Agnes, wife of Dr. Thomas J. Swantz, of South Bend, Indiana; and Gertrude Genevieve, wife of Clarence R. Van Vleck, of Jackson, Wyoming.
From the description of Nathan O. Lawton Papers, Circa 1910-Circa 1949. (Michigan Technological University). WorldCat record id: 728660094
