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��recognized by President Grant, through Attorney-General Williams. His Last official act as mayor was to order the city treasurer to pay the amount clue him for salary to the Firemen's Relief Association. Mr. Bartlett has been a trustee of the Merrimack River Sav- ings Bank from 1865 to the present time, and a trustee of the People's Savings Bank from its organization in 1874. He is also a director in the Merchants' National Bank. He was the master of Washington Lodge of Free Masons from April, 1872, to April. 1874. and now holds the position of United States commissioner, to which he was appointed in 1872. The only positions of trust he has held since his appointment as clerk of the United States court, are as a member of the last constitutional convention, and chairman of the commission appointed by the governor and council to investi- gate the affairs of the New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane.

Mr. Bartlett married, December 8, 1858, Miss Hannah M. Eastman, of Croydon, N. H., by whom he had one son, Charles Leslie, who died at the age of four years, and one daughter,

��Carrie Bell, a member of the Manches- ter high school.

Clarke's " History of Manchester," from which the foregoing facts are gath- ered, closes its biographical sketch of Mr. Bartlett as follows : " Mr. Bartlett has a keen, well-balanced mind, whose faculties are always at his command. He thinks readily, but acts cautiously, and seldom makes a mistake. Hence he has been financially successful in almost every thing he has undertaken. He is one of the most practical law- yers in the state, and was for several years in charge of the law department of the Mirror, giving general satisfac- tion, and his withdrawal, when his busi- ness compelled it, was a source of much regret to the readers of that paper.

In 1 88 1 Dartmouth College confer- red upon him the honorary degree of Master of Arts.

In 1882 Mr. Bartlett was elected to the New Hampshire state senate, re- signing his office as clerk of the U. S. district court. At the assembling of the legislature, on account of his emi- inent fitness, he was chosen president of the senate, an office second in rank to that of governor of the state.

��[From the Statesman of June 3, 1870.]

AN OLD-TIME CHAPTER.

��BY ASA McFARLAND.

Routes by which Governors have come into Concord — The Early Governors — Long Official Tenures of Langdon and Gilraan — Cavalcades and Military Spectacles Election Davs— Gov. Pierce the N- La«t of the Cocked Huts,"" etc.. etc.

Duringseveral years in the lastandthe been occupied by John Langdon, John beginning of this century Rockingham Taylor Gilman, Jeremiah Smith, Sam- county furnished the state with govern- uel Bell, Levi Woodbury, and John ors, and theventered Concord, when the Bell, also inhabitants of Rockingham ; sessions were held here, at the lower miking eight governors from that end of Main street, crossing the river county. What circumstances attend- by a ferry before the Merrimack was ed the entry into town of governors bridged. Governors Sullivan, Lang- whose incumbency was back of this don, Bartlett. and Gilman, all of Rock- century, it is difficult if not impossible ingham county, were Chief Magistrates to ascertain ; for k\v people survive during the latter part of the eighteenth whose memory is sufficiently good to century. Since 1800 the chair has give a reliable account thereof, and

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