enee; A Personal yarratice of Explorations and Incidents in Texas, New Mexico, Honora, and Chihuahua (1854) ; and Memoirs of Rhode Is- land Officers in the War of the Rebellion (1867). In addition he compiled a nuiiiber of valuable works, chielly bibliographical, including? Records of the Colony of Rhode lulnnd and the Providence PlanlalioHS, 10 vols. ( 183fi-(i.'j ) ; Jiihlio(/raphy of Rhode Island (1804); Literature of the Rehel- lion ." J Catalogue of Books and Pamphlets Re- lating to the Civil War and to iilavery (1867), and a four-volume Catalogue of the John Carter Broivn Library.
BARTLETT, Josiah (1729-05). An Ameri-
can sUitesman, bom at Amesbury, ^lass. After
but slight study he began medical practice at
Kingston, N. H., in 1750, and in 17.54 success-
fully introduced Peruvian bark in treatment of
angina maligna. He received from the royal
Governor, Sir John Wentworth, appointments
as a magistrate and as commander of a militia
regiment, but in 1775 was deprived of both in
consdjuence of his Whig activities. A delegate
in 1775 and 1776 to the Continental Congress,
he was the first member to vote for the Declara-
tion of Independence, and the first, after the
President, to sign the document. He became
chief-justice of the New Hampshire court of
common pleas in 1770, a judge of the State
Supreme Court in 1784, and Chief .Justice in
1788. From 1790 to 179.3 he was President of
New Hampshire, and in the latter year, under
the new Constitution, was elected Governor. He
was the principal founder (1791) of the New
Hanipsliire Medical Society.
BARTLETT, Paul, Wayland (1865— ). An
American sculptor, born at New Haven, Conn.
He began the study of sculpture in Boston under
Fremiet, and at 14 first exhibited at the Salon.
He entered the Ecole des Beau.-Arts, and was
a pupil there of Cavalier. He received hon-
orable mention at the Salon in 1887, and was
made a member of the Legion of Honor ( 1895).
Among the notable works of this sculptor are
the equestrian statue of General McClellan in
Philadelphia, the statue of Gen. Joseph Warren
in Boston, the equestrian statue of Lafayette,
presented by the school children of the United
States to France, and now in the square of the
Louvre, Paris; statues of Columbus and Michel-
angelo in the Congressional Library at Wash-
ington, and other works in the permanent art
collections of Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, and
in the Luxembourg JIuseum in Paris.
BARTLETT, Samuel Colcord (1817-98).
An American clergyman and educator, born at
Salisbury, N. H. He graduated at Dartmouth
College in 1836 and at Andover Theological
Seminary in 1842; was ordained to the ministry
in 184.3,' and from 1843 to 1846 was pastor of
the CongregatioTi.nl Church of Monson, Mass.
From 1846 imtil 1852 he was professor of intel-
lectual philosophy at Western Reserve College
(Hudson, Ohio) ; from 1852 to 1857 was pastor
of the Franklin Street C(mgregational Church,
Manchester, N. H., and in 1857-58, of the New
England Church, Chicago; and from 1858 to 1S77
was professor of biblical literature in the
Chicago Theological Seminary. He was, from
1877 to 1892, president of Dartmouth College,
which, during his administration, was greatly
expanded as to curriculum, buildings, and funds.
He received the degree of D.D. from Dartmouth,
and that of LL.D. from Dartmouth and Princeton.
A distinguished biblical scholar, he ])ul)lished, in
addition to contributions to the Hiblintheea Hac-
ra, the Princeton Review, and other periodicals;
Life and Death Eternal ( 1866) ; From Egypt to
Palestine (1879); Sovrees of History in the
Pentateuch (188.1) ; The Veracity of the Mexa-
ieiieh (1897) and other works.
BARTLETT, William Francis (1840-70).
An .American soldier. He was born at Haverhill,
Mass., and studied at Harvard for three years,
but left college in 1861 to join the Federal Army.
He received a captain's commission in August,
served in the battle of Ball's Bluff, and at the
siege of Yorktow-n received a wound which neces-
sitated the amputation of his leg. By the spring
of 1862 he had recovered sufficiently to graduate
with his class at Harvard. He organized the
Forty-ninth Massachusetts Volunteers in Sep-
tember, 1862, and served as colonel in General
Banks's Louisiana expedition. He was wounded
at Port Hudson, and again in the Wilderness
campaign, was taken prisoner at the explosion
of the Petersburg mine, was confined for a time
in Libby Prison, and after his release was placed
in command of the First Division of the Ninth
Army Corps. In June, 1804, he was raised to
the rank of brigadier-general of volunteers, and
in March, 1865, was brevetted major-general of
volunteers for 'gallant and meritorious .seiwices
during the war.' As a soldier he was noted for
his intrepidity, coolness, and daring in action.
Aft<>r the war, until the time of his death, he was
engaged in business in Richmond. Va., and Pitts-
field, Mass. Consult Palfrey, Memoir of William
Francis BartJett (Boston, 1878).
BARTLETT, William Henry (1809-54). An
English topographical draughtsman. He was
born in London, and began his career as an
assistant to John Britton, the architect, for
whose Cathedral Antiquities of Enqland (1814-
32) he furnished numerous sketches. A series
of volumes, containing more than 1000 of
his drawings made during extended travel in
Euro])e and the Orient, were published by Dr.
Beattie, his companion on several of these voy-
ages, and others. Between the years 1836 and
1852 Bartlett made four voyages to the United
States and Canada, the fruits of which appeared
in American Scenery (1840), and Canadian
Scenery (1842), with text by N. P. Willis. Be-
sides his frequent contributions to works of art, he
published the well-known books: Walks About
Jerusalem (1844); Forty Days in the Desert
(1848) ; The Nile Boat: or Olimpses of Egypt
(1849) ; Footsteps of Our Lord and His Apos-
ties in Syria, Oreece, and Italy ( 1851 ) ; The
Pilgrim Fathers (1853); Jerusalem Revisited
(1855).
BARTLETT, William Holmes Chambers (1809-93). An American soldier and scientist, born in Lancaster County, Pa., and educated at West Point, where he .graduated in 1826. As a lieutenant of engineers he sered as assistant professor at West Point, from 1827 to 1829, and again from 1834 to 1836 as acting professor of natural and experimental philosophy. From 1828 to 1832 he was engaged in construction work at Fort Monroe, and from 1832 to 1834 was assistant to the chief engineer at Washington, D. C. In 1836 he resigned his lieutenancy in the
