Bartholdt, Richard
journalist, congressman, was born Nov. 2, 1853, in Germany. He came to this country when a boy; received classical education; learned the printing trade and has remained a a newspaper man ever since. He was connected with several eastern papers as as reporter, legislative correspondent, and editor, and was at the time of his election to congress editor-in-chief of the St. Louis Tribune. He was elected to the board of public schools of St. Louis, and in 1891 was chosen its president. He was elected to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses and re-elected to the fiftyfifth congress as a republican, by over 16,000 majority. In the fifty-fourth congress he was chairman of the committee on immigration, and reported and passed the so-called Bartholdt-McCall bill which provided an educational test for immigrants.
BARTHOLOMEW, EDWARD SHEF- FIELD, sculptor, was born in 1822, in Colchester, Conn. Among his best-known works are Blind Homer led by his Daughter; Eve; Campagna Shepherd Boy; Genius of Painting; Youth and Old Age; Evening Star; Eve Repentant; Washington and Flora; A Monument to Charles Carroll; Belisarius at the Porta Pincinia; and Ganymede. The Wadsworth gallery, Hartford, Conn., contains a large number of his works. He died May 2, 1858, in Naples, Italy.
BARTHOLOMEW, MILES MAR- SHALL, inventor, was born Feb. 3, 1844, in Vienna, Ohio. He invented a typewriter and took out his first patent in 1879.
BARTHOLOMEW, PLINY WEBSTER, lawyer, jurist, was born Aug. 4, 1840, in Cabotville, Mass. He graduated in 1864 from the Union college of Schenectady, N. Y., and has attained success as an able lawyer of Indianapolis, Ind. He has been commissioner for New York and Connecticut, in Indiana; trustee of the American college of Indianapolis; and judge of the superior court during 1892- 96.