BARTLETT, Joseph Jackson, soldier, b. in Binghainton, N. Y., 4 Nov., IHoi ; d. in Baltimore, Md., 14 Jan., 1893. He was admitted to the bar and began practice in 1858. In May, 1861, he entered the ai-my as major of the 27th New York infantry, in September following was made colonel, and in October, 1862, was commissioned brigadier-general. He commanded brigades and divisions in the array of the Potomac, and was present at the surrender of Appomattox, with the rank of major-general. Under Johnson he held the office of U. S. minister to Sweden, and during Cleveland's first adminis- tration he was deputy commissioner of pensions.
BARTLETT, Josiah, signer of the declaration of
independence, b. in Amesbury, Mass., 21 Nov., 1729 ;
d. in New Hampshire, 19 May, 1795. He received
the rudiments of a classical education, and when
only sixteen began the study of medicine with his
relative. Dr. Ordway, of Amesbury. Young Bart-
lett worked so earnestly that he soon exhausted
the scanty library of his instructor, and was obliged
to have recourse to that of a neighboring clergy-
man. In 1750 he began to practise at Kingston,
N. H. When prostrated by a fever in 1752 he was
cured by treatment of his own, when that of the
local physicians had failed, and, learning from this
experience the value of freedom from dogmatical
rules in practice, he soon became eminent in his pro-
fession. During
the prevalence
of an alarming
throat disease
in 1754 he used
Peruvian bark
with great suc-
cess, although
this course was
opposed to
usage. Dr.Bart-
lett began po-
litical life in
1765 as a dele-
gate to the leg-
islature, an of-
fice which he
filled annually
until the revo-
lution. Here he
frequently op-
posed the royal
policy, and Gov.
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Wentworth, hoping to gain his support, appointed him a magistrate, and later, in 1770, to the com- mand of a militia regiment. He continued a zeal- ous whig, however, and in February, 1775, was de- prived for this reason of both offices. In 1774 the loss of his house by fire compelled him to decline an election to the proposed general congress. In 1775, Grov. Wentworth having left the province, Dr. Bartlett became a member of the committee of safety, upon which for some time the government practically devolved, and in September of that year he accepted a commission as colonel of the 7th regiment. He was chosen to the continental congress on 23 Aug., 1775, and again on 23 Jan., 1776. He was the first to give his vote for the declaration of independence, and was the sec- ond to sign it. In June, 1776, he was appointed general naval agent, and resigned from congress soon afterward. In 1777 he was with Stark at Bennington, engaged as agent of the state in pro- viding the New Hampshire troops with medical supplies. In March, 1778, Dr. Bartlett was again elected to congress, and still again in the following August. In October he obtained leave of absence to attend to his private business, and from that time was prominent in state rather than national affairs. He became chief justice of the court of common pleas in 1779, muster master of troops in 1780, justice of the superior court in 1782, and chief justice in 1788. In the last-named year he was an active member of the state convention that adopted the federal constitution. In 1789 the death of his wife greatly depressed his spirits, and he declined an election to the U. S. senate, plead- ing his advanced age. He was, however, chosen president of the state by the legislature in 1790 and in 1791 and 1792 by popular election. In 1793 he became the first governor of New Hamp- shire under the new state constitution, which of- fice he held till 1794.
BARTLETT, Samuel Colcord, educator, b. in
Salisbury, N. H., 25 Nov., 1817; d. in Hanover,
N. II., 16 Nov., 1898. His early life was spent on
a farm, where he worked hard. He was graduated
in 1836 at Dartmouth, acting as a tutor in 1838-'9,
and then studied at Andover theological seminary,
graduating in 1842. He was ordained on 2 Aug.,
1843, and was pastor of the Congregational church,
Monson, Mass., until 1846, when he became pro-
fessor of intellectual philosophy and rhetoric in
Western Reserve college. From 1852 till 1857 he
was in charge of the i^ranklin street church, Man-
chester, N. H., and from 1857 to 1859 pastor of the
New England church in Chicago. Meanwhile, in
1858, he had become professor of biblical literature
in Chicago theological seminary, where he continued
until 1877, when he was elected president of Dart-
mouth college. He crossed the desert of El Tih to
Palestine in 1874, with a view to comparing in de-
tail all the circumstances and conditions of the
region with the narrative of the journey of the
children of Israel. Besides numerous articles in
periodicals, orations at the centennial of the battle
of Bennington, the quarter millennial celebration
of Newburyport, the dedication of the Webster
statue at Concord, and at literary anniversaries, he
has published " Life and Death Eternal, a Refuta-
tion of the Doctrine of Annihilation " (Boston,
1866; 2 ed., 1878); "Sketches of the Missions of
the A. B. C. F. M." (1872); "Future Punishment"
(1875) ; " From Egypt to Palestine, Observations
of a Journey " (New York, 1879) ; and " Sources
of Plistory in the Pentateuch " (1883). — His son,
Edwin Julius, b. in Hudson, Ohio, 16 Feb., 1851,
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 pro-
fessor of chemistry in Dartmouth college, and in
1883 he became full professor.
BARTLETT, Washington Allen, Californian official, b. about 1820 ; d. in 1871. He was the first alcalde at San Francisco after the American conquest in 1846. He had been lieutenant on board one of the vessels of the American fleet, and was selected for his new office because of his knowledge of Spanish. His position was extremely difficult, but he succeeded in giving general satisfaction. During a revolt of the native Californians in the early months of 1847. he was captured by an irregular party and held for some time as prisoner. After his release he served once more for some years in the navy, and after 1855 lived in New York city. His daiighter married Signer Oviedo, a rich Cuban, in 1859, and the ceremony was celebrated with such magnificence that it was popularly known as the " Diamond Wedding." Under this title a poem descriptive and satirical was written by Edmund C. Stedman, which had o-
