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mouth, N.H. Bartlett, John, journalist, author, was born 14, 1820, in Plymouth, Mass. He was a, volunteer pay master in the United States navy in 1863-63. He was formerly a, Boston publisher, well known as the editor of Familiar Quotations, he reached a ninth edition in 1891. He is the author of The Shake-

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He died Dec. 3, 1905, in Cambridge, Mass. Bartlett, John Russell, statesman, genealogist, governor, author, was born Oct. 23, 1805, in Providence, E.I. He was at one time secretary of state for Rhode Island; and in 1861-63 was acting governor. He was the author of Records of the Colony of Rhode Island; Memoir of Rhode Island

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May 28, 1886, in Providence, R.I. Bartlett, Joseph, poet, was bom June 10, 1762, in Plymouth, Mass. He was a satirical poet whose New Vicar of Bray once attracted considerable attention. He died Oct. 20, 1827, in Boston, Mass. Bartlett, Joseph Jackson, soldier, diplomat, bom about 1820 in New York. He was appointed brigadier-general of volunteers in 1862; was brevetted major-general in 1864; and was mustered out in 1866. In 1867-69 he was United States minister reswas

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Bartlett, Josiah, lawyer, jurist, governor, was bom Nov. 31, 1729, in Amesbury, Mass. He accompanied Stark to Bennington as medical agent. In 1775-79 he was a delegate from New Hampshire to the continental congress; and was a signer of the articles of confederation and declaration of independence. He was appointed in 1779 chief justice of the court of common pleas ; became justice of the superior court in 1784; and chief justice in 1788. In 1790-93 he was president of

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Bartlett, Napier, soldier, journalist, author, was bom in 1836 in Georgia. He was the author of Clarimonde, a novelette; Stories of the Crescent City; and Soldier's Story of the War. He died in 1877. Bartlett, Paul Wayland, sculptor, artist, was born in 1865 in New Haven, Conn. His principal works are the equestrian statue of

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General McClelland at Philadelphia; statue of General Joseph Warren at Boston, Mass.; and equestrian statue of Lafayette at Paris, which was a gift to France from the school children of the United States. Bartlett, Peter Mason, clergyman, college president, banker, was bom Feb. 6, 1820, in Salisbury, Conn. He served as chaplain of the first New York mounted rifles in 1862-63. In 1868 he was elected president of Maryville college of Tennessee; and for nearly twenty years filled the chair of mental and moral philosophy and of didactic theology in that institution. He has been president of several business firms in Tennessee; and is now president of the bank of Maryville. Bartlett, Samuel Colcord, college president author, was born Nov. 25, 1817, in Salisbury, N.H. He became one of the editors of the Congregational Herald. In 1858 he was chosen professor of biblical literature in the Chicago theological seminary; he was elected president of Vermont university in 1866; and in 1877-92 was president of Dartmouth college. He was the author of Life and Death Eternal; from Egypt to Palestine; and other works. He died Nov. 16, 1898, in Hanover.

Sidney, lawyer, founder, was Feb. 13, 1799, in Plymouth, Mass. He began the practice of law in 1821; and in 1851 was a member of the Massachusetts house of rep'resentatives. He was one of the founders and the first president of the Boston bar association. He died March 6, 1889, in Boston, Mass. Bartlett,

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Thomas, lawyer, congressman, June 18, 1808, in Sutton, Vt. In 1851-53 he was a representative to the thirty-second congress from Vermont. He served three years in the state legislature in both houses. He died Sept. 8, 1876, in Lyndon, Vt. Bartlett', Thomas Edward, contractor, genealogist, was bom April 17, 1838, in SmithBartlett,

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Bartlett, Josiah, physician, congressman, bom Dec. 16, 1768, in Kingston, N.H. In

R.I. He is a successful contractor of Worcester, Mass. He is the author of Genealogy of the Bartletts. Bartlett, Washington, governor, author, was bom Feb. 29, 1824, in Savannah, Ga. He published the first book printed in California entitled as It is and as It May Be. In 1886-87 he was governor of California. He died Sept. 13, 1887, in Oakland, Cal.

1811-13 he was a representative from New Hampshire to the twelfth congress. He was a presidential elector in 1792 and 1835. His father, bearing the same name, was the first governor of New Hampshire. He died April 14, 1838, in Stratham, N. H.

Bartlett, Washington Allen, naval officer, was born about 1820 in Maine. He entered the United States navy in 1833; and was alcade of San Francisco, Cal. He changed the city's name from Yerba Buena to San Francisco. He died in 1871 in New York City.

New Hampshire. In 1793-94 he was governor of New Hampshire. He died May 19, 1795, in New Hampshire.

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