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Bartlett, Peter Mason

clergyman, banker, was born Feb. 6, 1820, in Salisbury, Conn. In 1850 he graduated from Williams college; and in 1853 from the Union Theological seminary of New York city. He has been general agent of the American Tract society; and has filled pastorates in Circleville, Ohio; Lansingburgh, N. Y.; and Windsor Locks, Conn. He served as chaplain of the first New York mounted rifles during 1862-63. In 1868 he was elected president of the Maryville college, Tenn.; and for nearly twenty years filled the chair of Mental and Moral Philosophy, and of Didactic Theology in that institution.

He has been president of several business firms of Tennessee, and is now president of the bank of Maryville.