Bartlett, Alice Eloise – Bartlett, Thomas
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, Charles L
lawyer, jurist, legislator, congressman, was born Jan. 31, 1853, in Monticello, Ga. He removed from Monticello to Macon, Ga., in 1875, and has resided in Macon since then; was educated in the schools at Monticello, the university of Georgia, and the university of Virginia; and graduated at the university of Georgia in August, 1870. He studied law at the university of Virginia and was admitted to the bar in August, 1872. He was appointed solicitor-general (prosecuting attorney) for the Macon judicial court Jan. 31, 1877, and served in that capacity until Jan. 31, 1881; was elected to the house of representatives of Georgia in 1882-83, and again in 1884-85, and to the state senate in 1889.
He was elected judge of the superior court of the Macon circuit in 1893; and was elected to the fifty-fourth and fiftyfifth congresses.
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, Elisha
physician, author, was born in 1805, in Smithfield, R. I. He was a Rhode Island physician; and the author of The Fevers of the United States; and Simple Settings in Verse for Portraits and Pictures in Mr. Dicken's Gallery. He died July 18, 1855, in Smithfield, R. I.
Bartlett, Elizabeth Collis
author, was born Nov. 5, 1838, in New Haven, Conn. Mrs. Bartlett's husband was editor of the Scientific American.
After his death she became a writer of short stories, and at present is writing stories on English history.
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.
Bartlett, John Russell
public official, author, was born Oct. 23, 1805, in Providence, R. I. He was at one time secretary of state in Rhode Island; and was the author of Records of the Colony of Rhode Island; Memoir of Rhode Island Officers in the War of the Rebellion; Primeval Man; Genealogy of the Russell Family; Dictionary of Americanisms; and Progress of Ethnology. He edited the Letters of Roger Williams.
He died May 28, 1886, in Providence, R. I.
Bartlett, Joseph
poet, was born June 10, 1762, in Plymouth, Mass. He was a satirical poet whose New Vicar of Bray once attracted considerable attention. He died Oct. 20, 1827, in Boston, Mass.
Bartlett, Joseph J
diplomat, was born about 1820, in New York. In 1867 he was appointed minister resident to Sweden and Norway, where he remained until 1869.
Bartlett, Josiah
jurist, governor, was born Nov. 21, 1729, in Amesbury, Mass. He was educated for the medical profession; held commissions, both military and civil, under the royal government; accompanied Stark to Bennington as medical agent; was a delegate from New Hampshire to the continental congress from 1775 to 1779, and signed the articles of confederation and declaration of independence. He was appointed, in the latter year, chief justice of the court of common pleas; justice of the superior court in 1784, and chief justice in 1788.
In 1790 he was appointed president of New Hampshire, and elected by the people in 1791 and 1792. In 1793 he was elected governor of New Hampshire under the constitution, serving two years.
He was the president of a medical society established by his efforts in 1791. He died May 19, 1795, in New Hampshire.
Bartlett, Josiah
physician, congressman, was born in 1768, in New Hampshire. He was a physician of extensive practice; a representative in congress from New Hampshire from 1811 to 1813; and a presidential elector in 1792 and 1825. His father, bearing the same name, was a man of note, and the first governor of New Hampshire, after the adoption of the federal constitution.
He died April 14, 1838, in Stratham, N.
H.
Bartlett, Mary Russell
author.
She is a graduate of Wellesley college; and her poems constantly appear in current publications.
Bartlett, Napier
soldier, journalist, author, was born in 1836, in Georgia. He was the author of Clarimonde, a novelette; Stories of the Crescent City; and A Soldier's Story of the War. died in 1877.
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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.
Bartlett, Ralph W
lawyer, educator, was born June 13, 1865, in North Brookfield, Mass. He is a graduate from Amherst college and the Boston university law school; and is a member of the bar. Since 1894 he has been instructor of real property at the Boston university school of law.
Bartlett, Samuel Colcord
eighth president of Dartmouth college, was born Nov. 25, 1817, in Salisbury, N.
H. In 1836 he graduated from Dartmouth college; then began educational work.
In 1843 he became pastor of the congregational church in Monson, Mass.; and three years later assumed the duties of the professorship of intellectual philosophy and rhetoric in the Western Reserve college. In 1852 he returned to the ministry; filled pastorates in Manchester, N. H., and Chicago, Ill.; and became one of the editors of the Congregational Herald. In 1858 he was chosen professor of biblical literature in the Chicago Theological seminary; was elected president of Vermont university in 1866; and in 1877 became president of Dartmouth college.
After fifteen years of service he resigned in 1892. He is the author of Life and Death Eternal; from Egypt to Palestine; and other works.
Bartlett, Thomas
JR., lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born in Vermont. He adopted the profession of the law; and was a representative in congress from Vermont from 1851 to 1853. He served three years in the state legislature, in both houses.