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 BAKTLETT. BAKTLETT. 43 He attended two years in the primary- schools, six years in the Winter Street grammar school, and four years in the high school, Haverhill, and four years at Har- vard College. He was graduated from Harvard in 1880, with the degree of A. B., with honorable mention. He founded the " Derry News," a weekly newspaper, at Derry, N. H., De- cember, 1SS0, and conducted it one year as editor, publisher and proprietor. This paper still continues publication and has been a success from the first. In September, 1882, Mr. Bartlett was admitted as an attorney-at-law to practice in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and at once opened a law office in Haver- hill, where he is now engaged in his pro- fession. Mr. Bartlett is unmarried. He was superintendent of schools of Nottingham, N. H., 1S81 and '82. He is a member of the Republican city committee of Haver- hill, upon which committee he has served for three consecutive years. In April, 1888, he was appointed by Governor Ames a master in chancery for the county of Essex. He is at present chancellor commander of Palestine Lodge No. 26, K. of P., and junior sagamore of Passaquoi Tribe No. 27, Improved Order of Red Men. Mr. Bartlett is a grandson of the late Col. Joseph Cilley, of Nottingham, X. 11., who was a United States senator, one of the original abolitionists, and a battle- scarred veteran of Lundy's Lane, and whose brother, Hon. John Cilley, was con- gressman from Maine in 1S38, and a man widely known throughout the country. BARTLETT, SIDNEY, son of Zaccheus and Hannah (Jackson) Bartlett, was born in Plymouth, Plymouth county, February 13, 1799. He was a lineal descendant of Robert Bartlett, who came to Plymouth only three years after the first settlers set foot on Plymouth Rock. He received his early education in the schools of his native town, and at the age of nineteen years was graduated from Har- vard College in the class of 1818. After graduation Mr. Bartlett studied law with Hon. Lemuel Shaw, and was ad- mitted to the bar in 1821. He was at once taken into partnership with his instructor, and the two w^ere associated together until Mr. Shaw was raised to the position of Chief Justice of the supreme judicial court. Mr. Bartlett early became one of the leaders of the Suffolk bar, and for many years was recognized by the supreme court of the United States as one of the ablest, if not the ablest, of the distinguished lawyers of the country who appeared be- fore that tribunal. He was thoroughly read in the literature of his profession, and as a legal reasoner, grasping legal prin- ciples and applying them to the facts of the case in hand, he was without a superior in this country. Mr. Bartlett was a member of the Legis- lature in 185 1, and a member of the Con- stitutional Convention of 1S53. In 1855 Harvard conferred upon him the degree of LL. D. The extraordinary length of Mr. Bart- lett's career is forcibly brought home to the minds of the legal fraternity, by the fact that while he was at the bar, the mem- bership both of the supreme court of the United States and of the supreme court of Massachusetts was twice renewed. Mr. Bartlett was married in Boston, October 8, 1828, to Caroline, daughter of John and Mary (Tewksbury) Pratt. Of this union were four children : Sidney, Jr., (deceased), Francis, Louisa C. and Anna Cj. Bartlett (deceased). SIDNEY BARTLETT. On the 6th of March, 1889, this wonder- ful life came to a close. He died as he had lived, at the head of his profession,.