great run, and nearly involved its author in a duel with the enraged father of the bride.
BARTLETT, William, philanthropist, b. in
Newburyport, Mass., 31 Jan., 1748; d. there, 8
Feb., 1841. He had little education in youth, but
his deficiencies in this respect were supplied by
shrewdness and caution. 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. He afterward built
another professor's house, a hall, and a chapel, and
Slid the president's salary for five or six years.
- is gifts to this institution reached $250,000, and
he also gave largely toward temperance work, missions, and the education of ministers.
BARTLETT, William Francis, soldier, b. in Haverhill, Mass., 6 Jan., 1840; d. in Pittsfield, Mass., 17 Dec, 1876. Mr. Bartlett was a student
at Harvard when the first call of the president
came for troops in 1861. He at once left college,
enlisted in the 4th battalion of Massachusetts volunteers, and learned his manual of arms and company drill in Port Independence, Boston harbor. Returning to college for a brief period, he was offered a captaincy in the 20th Massachusetts volunteers. In September the regiment was in camp in front of Washington, and on 21 Oct. the young
captain was for the first time under fire at Ball's
Bluff. His aptitude for military service was so
evident that he was soon an acting field officer.
In the spring of 1862 he was severely wounded at
Yorktown, and suffered amputation of his leg. He
recovered sufficiently to be present with his class
when it graduated, and received a degree In Sept.,
1862, he accepted the duty of organizing the 49th
Massachusetts volunteers recruiting at Pittsfield,
and was soon made its colonel in spite of his
physical disability. The regiment was ordered to
Louisiana with Gen. Banks's expedition. Col.
Bartlett was obliged, owing to the loss of his leg,
to remain mounted whenever his regiment needed
his presence, and exposed himself on all occasions
with the most reckless daring. It is even said that
the confederate officers, in admiration of his bra-
very, endeavored to prevent their men from aiming
at him. He was, nevertheless, twice wounded in
the assault on Port Hudson, 27 May. Returning
to the north, he organized the 57th Massachusetts
volunteers in time to lead it in the Wilderness
campaign, where he was again wounded. He was
promoted brigadier-general, and was in the field
again as soon as he could sit his horse, but, exposing himself with his usual recklessness, was
taken prisoner after the explosion of the mine before Petersburg, 30 July, 1864. After several weeks
of suffering in Libby prison and elsewhere, he was
exchanged in September, placed in command of
the 1st division of the 9th corps, and in 1865 was
brevetted major-general. His military career is
among the most brilliant on record. His frequent
wounds testified to his bravery, and the success
with which he managed his men so long as he re-
mained uidiurt marked him as a born leader.
After the war he engaged for a time in business
with the Tredegar Iron Works at Richmond, Va.,
but eventually returned to the north, and married
a lady whose acquaintance he had formed while
recruiting his regiment at Pittsfield, Mass. In
that city he engaged in business, and made his
residence. In 1875 he won a sudden and deserved
reputation as an orator by an address delivered at
the battle-field of Lexington, on the centennial anniversary of the fight. See " Memoir of William
Francis "Bartlett," by P. W. Palfrey (Boston, 1878).
BARTLETT, William Holms Chambers, mathematician, b. in Lancaster, Pa., in 1809 ; d. in Yonkers, N. Y., 10 Feb., 1893. He early removed to Missouri, and was appointed to the U. S. military academy from that state. During the last two
years of his cadetship he served as acting professor
of mathematics. He was graduated in 1826 at the
head of his class, and was one of the few who have
passed through the rigid course at West Point without any demerit marks. He was at once commissioned second lieutenant of engineers. For two years, 1827-'9, he was assistant professor of engineering at West Point. From 1829 till 1834 he was on engineering duty, constructing the principal coastwise fortifications. His permanent appointment as professor of natural and experimental philosophy at the military academy was made 20 April,
1836. He received the honorary degree of A. M.
from Princeton in 1837, and of LL. D. from Geneva, N. Y. (now Hobart), college in 1847. He was the author of many contributions to "Silliman's Journal," and of an elaborate paper on rifled guns,
published in the memoirs of the national academy
of sciences, of which association he was one of the
original incorporators. In 1840 he was sent abroad
to procure instruments for the astronomical observatory at West Point, and visited the principal observatories of the world. He was retired from
military service at his own request in 1871, with
the rank of colonel, and shortly afterward accepted the place of actuary for the Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York. He prepared several text-books for the use of the cadets, which have been adopted in many of the best colleges. Their
titles are as follows: "Treatise on Optics" (New York, 1839); "Synthetical Mechanics" (1850), containing some of his original theorems, notably that of the conservation of work, applicable to all branches of scientific study; "Analytical Mechanics" (1853); and "Spherical Astronomy" (1855).
BARTLETT, William Lehman Ashmead Burdett-Coutts, b. in New Brunswick, N. J., in 1851. He is the son of Ellis Bartlett. an American merchant. In 1861, shortly after his father's death, he removed to England, where he was educated.
He studied first at Uppingham school, and then entered Keble college, Oxford, in 1870, where he held a scholarship, subsequently graduating at Christ church, after which he studied law. During his college life he became acquainted with the Baroness Burdett-Coutts, to whom he afterward became private secretary, and during the Turko-Russian war of 1877-'8 he acted as her almoner in connection with the "Turkish Compassionate Fund." He has also had some journalistic experience, and at one time was connected with a weekly paper called "England." On his return from the east he published a book on the Turko-Russian war. Later he assisted the Baroness Coutts in the distributing of her charities in Ireland, and on 12 Feb., 1881, he married her. This
event caused much comment, not only from the
fact that the bride was thirty-seven years older
than the groom, but by her act it was understood
that she relinquished a large portion of the wealth
she had inherited until she should marry or die.
Subsequent to the marriage he became a member
of parliament, and in 1886 was reelected as a conservative by an increased majority, and by royal
license assumed the name of Burdett-Coutts.—His
brother, Ellis Ashmead, b. in Philadelphia, was
educated at Christ Church, Oxford, where he dis-
