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 42 BARRUS. BARTLETT. "The Indian's Side of the Indian Ques- tion," and '• The United States of Yester- day and of To-morrow." He was one of the five founders, and for seven years one of the editors, of the " Congregational Review." He came from following the plough to his course of study, and by his own labor paid all his educational expenses. He has been singularly vigorous, not having lost six Sabbaths from the pulpit from illness dur- ing his entire professional life, nor has he been without full stipulated. employment, as pastor or secretary or agent, for one hour from the beginning of his public life. His rare good health he attributes to farm and garden work and frequent field sports. He has camped all the way from New Brunswick to the head-waters of the Col- umbia — his last vacation being eight hun- dred miles in the saddle in the Rocky Mountains. Dr. Barrows agrees devoutly with old Hugh Latimer in his sermon before the Sixth Edward on field sports : " It is a worthy game, a wholesome kind of exercise and much commended in Phisicke." 1 >r. Barrows has been twice married. His first wife was Lucia A. Case, of Bland- ford, to whom he was married in June, 1845. His second marriage was with Elizabeth Adams Cate, of Cambridge. Of the latter union were three sons and one daughter. BARRUS, ALVAN, son of Levi and Almeda (Stearns) Barrus, was born in Go- shen, Hampshire county, October 14, 1831. He gleaned his early education from the public schools of his native town ; worked on the home farm till twenty-one, peddled milk in Holyoke one year, after which sev- eral years were spent in the manufacture of bench and moulding planes, at Goshen, in connection with his brother, Hiram Barrus. In 1S59 he sold out the business and made a connection with A. W. Crafts, opening a country store at Goshen. In August, 1862, he entered the army, served his enlistment, and was discharged in November, 1864, returning to the old homestead, where he has since turned his attention to agricultural pursuits. Mr. Barrus was married in Reading, June 29, 1S69, to Emeline P., daughter of John and Sarah (Parker) Wakefield. Of this union are two children : Lena W. and George Levi Barrus. Mr. Barrus has been frequently culled to serve his town in the various offices ; he was sent to the state Legislature in 1879 — House of Representatives — and was a member of the state Senate in 1883 and '84. He is justice of the peace ; was three years member of the state board of agriculture, from which he was elected a member of the board of control of the Massachusetts Experiment Station, Am- herst, serving as secretary of the board. He succeeded in incorporating the Hillside Agricultural Society at Cummington, in 1883, since which time he has been its president. He has held no military office except to act for a short time as hospital steward at Marine Hospital, Baltimore, where soldiers were brought with small- pox. He has long served on the parish committee of the Congregational society of Goshen, and as selectman of the town fifteen years. Mr. Barrus is at present engaged in de- veloping a spodrumene mine, located on his farm, from which the rare earth lithia is manufactured. The reduction is done entirely in Europe. This industry is a novelty in Massachusetts. BARTLETT, NATHANIEL ClLLEY, son of Thomas B. and Victoria E. W. (Cilley) Bartlett, was born in Nottingham, Rock- NATHANIEL C BARTLETT. ingham county, N. H., June 22, 185 8. He is grandson of Judge Bradbury Bartlett of Nottingham, N. H., a distinguished member of the bar in that state.