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Bartlett, Alice Eloise – Bartlett, John

Bartlett, Alice Eloise

author, poet, was born Sept. 24, 1848, in Delavan, Wis. She is widely known by the pen name of Birch Arnold. In 1872 she began to write for the Toledo Blade; and is the author of two novels entitled Until the Daybreak, and A New Aristocracy. She has written numerous meritorious poems, which have appeared in current magazines and in several standard collections.

Bartlett, Asa

jurist. He was appointed chief justice of the United States court for the territory of Dakota.

Bartlett, Bailey

congressman.

He was sheriff of Essex county, Mass., for many years, and a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1797 to 1801.

Bartlett, Charles G

soldier.

For many years he served his country as a soldier, and is now a colonel in the United States army.

Bartlett, Charles Henry

naval legislator, was born Oct. 15, 1833, in Sunapee, N. H. He served with distinction in the New Hampshire state senate in 1883; and was made president of that body. He resides in Manchester, and his portrait hangs in the new library building of the state capitol.

Bartlett, Clarence

lecturer, was born May 22, 1858, in Brooklyn, N. Y.

He attained prominence as a lecturer on neurology in many prominent colleges; and is the author of a work entitled Farrington Clinical Materia Medica.

Bartlett, David Lewis

manufacturer, was born Dec. 6, 1816, in Hadley, Mass. His firm are among the most extensive manufacturers of architectural iron and gas works in the United States.

They have erected gas plants at Milwaukee, Wis., Brooklyn, N. Y., Newark, Hoboken, and Morristown, N. J., Boston, Brookline and Haverhill, Mass., Washington, D. C., Montreal, Canada, and Havana, Cuba.

Bartlett, Edwin Julius

educator, was born Feb. 16, 1851, in Hudson, Ohio. He was graduated at Lake Forest academy in 1868, and at Dartmouth in 1872, after which he studied at Rush medical college, receiving his degree in 1879. From 1879 till 1883 he was associate professor of chemistry in Dartmouth college, and in 1883 he became full professor.

Bartlett, Franklin

lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 10, 1847, in Worcester county, Mass. In 1890 he served as a member of the constitutional commission of the state of New York; in 1892 was a delegate from New York to the democratic national convention at Chicago; and was elected to the fiftythird and re-elected to the fifty-fourth congresses.

Bartlett, Homer Lyman

physician, was born in Jericho, Vt. He was consulting physician to Kings county hospital; and in 1881 was a delegate to the Physicians' Mutual Aid association.

He has contributed freely to medical journals; and also written a series of Sketches of Long Island.

Bartlett, Ichabod

lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born July 24, 1786, in Salisbury, N. H. He was a representative in congress from New Hampshire from 1823-29; was also frequently in the state legislature, and was a member of the convention to revise the state constitution. He died Oct. 19, 1853, in Portsmouth, N. H.

Bartlett, John

journalist, author, was born June 14, 1820, in Plymouth, Mass. He was formerly a Boston publisher, well known as the editor of Familiar Quotations, which reached a ninth edition in 1891. He is the author of The Shakespeare Phrase-Book; and A Complete Concordance to Shakespeare.

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