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186 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. he also gave largely toward temperance work, missions, and the education of ministers.
 * is gifts to this institution reached $250,000, and

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-