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Rh tinguished himself as a scholar. He also became known as a famous athlete, and represented his college in the contests against Cambridge. Later he became a member of parliament from Eye, and in 1886 was re-elected to parliament as a conservative, and appointed to office in the admiralty under the Salisbury government.

BARTLETT, William Pitt Greenwood, mathematician, b. in Boston, Mass., 27 Oct., 1837; d. in Cambridge, Mass., 13 Jan., 1865. He was graduated at Harvard in 1858, and was one of the proctors of the college from 1859 till 1863. He became one of the corps of computers for the " Nautical Almanac," and the character of his work is shown by the fact that, owing to the condition in which it was left at his death, another computer was able to take it up without the loss of any of Mr. Bartlett's labor. He published several papers on the elements of quaternions in the " Mathematical Monthly," and on interpolation in the " Memoirs of the American Academy."

BARTLEY, Elias Hudson, chemist, b. in Bartleyville, N. J., 6 Dec, 1849. His early life was spent on a farm in Illinois, and after attending the high school in Princeton, Ill., he was graduated at Cornell in 1873. During 1874-'5 he was instructor at that university, and from 1875 till 1878 professor of chemistry at Swarthmore college. In the winter of 1877-8 he lectured be- fore the Franklin institute, Philadelphia, and in 1879 he removed to Brooklyn. He was graduated at Long Island college hospital in 1879, and from 1880 till 1885 was lecturer on physiological and practical chemistry in that college, when he became professor of chemistry and toxicology. 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" (New York, 1885), and is the author of "A Text-Book of Medical Chemistry" (Philadelphia, 1885).

BARTLEY, Mordecai, governor of Ohio, b. in Fayette co., Pa., 16 Dec., 1783; d. in Mansfield, Ohio, 10 Oct., 1870. He attended school, and worked on his father's farm until 1809, when he moved to Ohio. In the War of 1812 he served in the northwest, under Gen., as captain and adjutant. He settled in Richland co. in 1814, and remained there until 1834, when he removed to Mansfield and engaged in mercantile pursuits. Mr. Bartley was elected to the Ohio senate in 1817, and in 1818 was chosen, by the legislature, registrar of the land-office of the Virginia military district school lands. He resigned his registrarship in 1823, having been elected member of congress, where he remained until 3 March, 1831. In 1844 he was elected governor of Ohio on the whig ticket. During the Mexican war, when the president issued his call for troops, Gov. Bartley, though opposed to the war, promptly responded, superintending their organization in person. In 1846 he retired to private life, declining a renomination. He remained a whig until the disruption of that party, and subsequently acted with the republicans.

BARTOL, Cyrus Augustus, clergyman, b. in Freeport, Me., 30 April, 1813. He was graduated at Bowdoin in 1832, and at Cambridge divinity school in 1835. In 1837 he was settled as col- league pastor with the Rev. Charles Lowell, D. D., of the West church (Unitarian) in Boston. He became sole pastor in 1861, and has been active in philanthropic movements. Dr. Bartol has published "Discourses on the Christian Spirit and Life" (Boston, 1850; 2d ed., revised, 1854); "Discourses on Christian Body and Form" (1854); "Pictures of Europe Framed in Ideas" (1855), a work combining graphic sketches with philosophical reflections; "History of the West Church and its Ministers" (1858); "Church and Congregation" (1858): "Word of the Spirit to the Church" (1859); "Radical Problems" (1872); "The Rising Faith" (1874); and "Principles and Portraits" (1880). He has also published many occasional essays, and some poetry. Dr. Bartol's writings are full of rich and quaint imagery, and deeply religious, but more ethical and social than theological.

BARTOLACHE, José Ignacio (bar-to-lah'-chay), Mexican mathematician, b. in Guanajuato, Mexico, 30 March, 1739; d. 9 June, 1790. Among his works are: &ldquo;Lecciones de Matemáticas&rdquo;; &ldquo;Observaciones astronómicas del Paso de Venus por el Disco del Sol&rdquo; (written by Bartolache and Alzate); and &ldquo;Instrucción para la Cura de las Viruelas.&rdquo;

BARTON, Clara, philanthropist, b. in Oxford, Mass., about 1830. She is the daughter of Capt. Stephen Barton, and was educated in Clinton, N. Y. Early in life she became a teacher, and founded a free school in Bordentown, N. J. When this was opened it was attended by only six pupils; but when Miss Barton left it the attendance numbered more than 600. She entered the patent office as a clerk in 1854, and remained there until the war began, when she determined to devote herself to the care of wounded soldiers on the battlefield. In 1864 she was appointed by Gen. Butler &ldquo;lady in charge&rdquo; of the hospitals at the front of the Army of the James. In 1865 she went to Andersonville, Ga., to identify and mark the graves of the union prisoners buried there, and in the same year was placed by President Lincoln in charge of the search for the missing men of the union armies. She lectured during the years 1866 and 1867 on her war experiences, and afterward went to Switzerland for her health. At the beginning of the Franco-German war, in 1870, she assisted the grand duchess of Baden in the preparation of military hospitals, and gave the red cross society much aid during the war. At the joint request of the German authorities and the Strasburg &ldquo;Comité de Secours,&rdquo; she superintended the supplying of work to the poor of that city in 1871, after the siege, and in 1872 had charge of the public distribution of supplies to the destitute people of Paris. At the close of the war she was decorated with the golden cross of Baden and the iron cross of Germany. In 1881, on the organization of the American red cross society, she became its president. The treaty granting protection to red cross agents was signed 16 March, 1882. The American society is modelled after its European namesake, and its object is stated by the constitution to be &ldquo;to organize a system of national relief.