Bartlett, Thomas Edward – Bartram, Joseph Burr
Bartlett, Thomas Edward
contractor, genealogist, was born April 17, 1838, in Smithfield, R. I. He received his education at the Maine Wesleyan seminary, and the Quaker school of Providence, R. I. He is a successful contractor of Worcester, Mass., and the author of a genealogy of the Bartletts.
Bartlett, Thomas Elliott
clergyman, author, was born Sept. 20, 1853, in Newburyport, Mass. He graduated from Brown university and Newton Theological institute, and since 1880 has been pastor of South Baptist church, of Providence, R. I. He is the author of several books.
Bartlett, Washington
governor, was born Feb. 29, 1824, in Savannah, Ga.
He published the first book printed in California, entitled California as It Is and as It May Be. In 1886 he was chosen governor of California, and held that office until the time of his death. He died Sept. 2, 1887.
Bartlett, William
philanthropist, was born Jan. 31, 1748, in Newburyport, Mass. Entering on a mercantile career, before the revolution, he succeeded, with economy, in amassing a fortune, which he largely spent in charity, and for the advancement of religion and morals. At the foundation of Andover theological seminary, in 1807, he gave it $30,000, endowed a professorship, and built a house for the use of the incumbent. His gifts to this institution reached $250,000, and he also gave largely toward temperance work, missions, and the education of ministers. He died Feb. 8, 1841, in Newburyport, Mass.
Bartlett, William Francis
soldier, was born Jan. 6, 1840, in Haverhill, Mass. He served in the civil war as captain of the 57th Massachusetts volunteers, and was promoted brigadier-general for gallant and meritorious conduct. He died Dec. 17, 1876, in Pittsfield, Mass.
Bartlett, William Holms Chambers
scientist, author, was born in 1809, in Lancaster, Pa. He was a prominent scientist, who was from 1834- 71 an instructor at West Point. He was the author of Treatise on Optics; Analytical Mechanics; and Spherical Astronomy. He died in 1893.
Bartlett, William Pitt Green- Wood
mathematician, author, was born Oct. 27, 1837, in Boston, Mass. He became one of the corps of computers for the Nautical Almanac. He published several papers on the elements of quaternions in the Mathematical Monthly, and on interpolation in the Memoirs of the American Academy. He died Jan. 13, 1865, in Cambridge, Mass.
Bartley, Elias Hudson
chemist, author, was born Dec. 6, 1849, in Bartleyville, N. J. In 1882 he was appointed chief chemist to the health department, Brooklyn. He is also consulting sanitarian to the hospital for nervous diseases, and visiting physician to the sheltering arms nursery. Dr. Bartley is a member of numerous medical and other scientific societies, and president of the American Society of Public Analysts. He has contributed several articles to Wood's Household Practice of Medicine; and is the author of A Text-Book of Medical Chemistry.
Bartley, Mordecai
soldier, agriculturalist, governor, was born Dec. 16, 1783, in Fayette county, Pa. He was captain and adjutant, under Harrison, in the war of 1812; and was a state senator in 1817 and 1818. He was a representative in congress from Ohio from 1823 to 1831; and governor of Ohio from 1844 to 1846.
He died Oct. 12, 1870, in Mansfield, Ohio.
Bartley, Thomas W
lawyer, jurist, state senator, governor, was born Feb. 11, 1812, in Jefferson county, Pa.
He served two years in the house of representatives, and four years in the senate of Ohio. In 1851 he was elected judge of the supreme court of Ohio, and served in that position two terms, three years of the time as chief justice of the court. In 1844, when Governor Shannon resigned to become minister to Mexico, Mr. Bartley, as president of the senate, became the governor.
Bartol, Cyrus Augustus
clergyman, author, poet, was born April 30, 1813, in Freeport, Maine. His first and only settlement in the ministry was as colleague with Rev.
Dr. Charles Lowell, at West church, Boston, in 1837. In 1861 he became and still remains sole pastor, having rendered distinguished service of more than half a century over one of the oldest and most influential societies of Boston. This noted unitarian clergyman is prominent as a leader of radical religious thought; and has always been active in philanthropic movements. He is the author of Pictures of Europe; Christian Spirit and Life; Radical Problems; The Rising Faith; Principles and Portraits; Church and Congregation; and Christian Body and Form.
Barton, Mrs. Anna
pastor, poet, was born Oct. 26, 1842, in Western New York. After engaging in active church service for many years, in 1886 she assumed the position of pastor of the Free Baptist church, of Paw Paw, Mich. In 1882 she published a volume of poems, entitled For Friendship's Sake.
Barton, Benjamin Smith
physician, author, was born Feb. 10, 1766, in Lancaster, Pa. He was a noted physician of Philadelphia; and the author of Observations on Some Parts of Natural History; New Views on the Origin of the Tribes of North America; and Elements of Botany. He died Dec. 19, 1815, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Barton, Clara
philanthropist, was born in 1830, in North Oxford, Mass. She was educated at Clinton, N. Y. She founded a free school at Bordentown, N.
J.; was clerk in the United States patent office from 1854 to 1861; devoted herself to the care of sick and wounded soldiers during the civil war; went to Europe and did hospital work in the Franco-German war; aided the Red Cross movement; assisted the poor at Paris and Strasburg; returning, she became the head of the Red Cross society, and in 1896 went to Turkey to aid the persecuted Armenians. In 1898 she went to Cuba, and had charge of distributing supplies furnished by the United States government.
Barton, David
congressman, was born in 1785, in Boonville, Mo. He was one of the first emigrants to the territory of Missouri; president of the convention which met to form a state constitution in 1820; and was a senator in congress from Missouri from 1821 to 1831. He died Sept. 28, 1837, near Boonville, Mo.
Barton, Hubbard Alonzo
journalist, poet, was born May 12, 1842, in Croydon, N. H. This well-known New Hampshire editor was educated in the schools of his native town and by private instruction, and for many years was superintendent of schools. Early developing a literary taste he contributed much, both in prose and verse, to the public press. In 1879 he became the editor and senior proprietor of the New Hampshire Argus and Spectator, a wellknown democratic newspaper published at Newport, N. H., which was established in 1823, by his great uncle, the Hon. Cyrus Barton; and for the past twenty years he has been continuously connected with that publication.
Barton, Richard W
legislator, congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1841 to 1843; also served in the state legislature; and was the first president of the Valley Agricultural society. He died March 15, 1859, in Frederick county, Va.
Barton, Samuel
congressman, was born in New York. He served three years in the assembly of that state; and was a representative in congress from 1835 to 1837.
Barton, Thomas
clergyman, was born in 1730, in Monaghan, Ireland. He was for nearly twenty years rector of St.
James church, Lancaster, Pa. He died May 25, 1780, in New York.
Barton, William
soldier, was born May 26, 1748, in Warren, R. I. He was a soldier in the revolutionary war; and received the rank of colonel and a sword for his services. He died Oct. 22, 1831, in Providence, R. I.
Barton, William Paul Crillon
physician, surgeon, botanist, author, was born Nov. 17, 1786, in Philadelphia, Pa.
He organized the United States naval bureau of medicine and surgery, and was known both as botanist and surgeon. He was the author of Vegetable Materia Medica of the United States; Flora of North America; Medical Botany; and Compendium Floræ Philadelphiæ. He died Feb. 9, 1856, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Bartow, a. A
educator, journalist, poet, was born Sept. 3, 1851, in Huron, Ohio. Until 1889 he was engaged in educational work; and then became editor of the Cincinnati Public School Journal.
At the age of twelve he was a drummer boy in the union army.
Bartram, John
botanist, author, was born March 23, 1699, in Darby, Pa.
He was a shrewd, careful observer whom Linnæus termed the greatest natural botanist in the world, and was called the father of American botany. He was the author of Observations on the Inhabitants, Climate, etc., as made by Mr. John Bartram in his Travels from Pennsylvania to Onondaga, etc. A similar record of travels in eastern Florida appeared in 1766. He died Sept. 22, 1777, in Kingsessing, Pa.
Bartram, Joseph Burr
merchant, was born May 17, 1839, in Black Rock, Conn. He is extensively engaged in the importation of sugar from the West Indies, having plantations on the islands of St. Croix and San Domingo, and controlling the product of several others.