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BARTLETT. enee; A Personal yarratice of Explorations and Incidents in Texas, New Mexico, Honora, and Chihuahua (1854) ; and Memoirs of Rhode Is- land Officers in the War of the Rebellion (1867). In addition he compiled a nuiiiber of valuable works, chielly bibliographical, including? Records of the Colony of Rhode lulnnd and the Providence PlanlalioHS, 10 vols. ( 183fi-(i.'j ) ; Jiihlio(/raphy of Rhode Island (1804); Literature of the Rehel- lion ." J Catalogue of Books and Pamphlets Re- lating to the Civil War and to iilavery (1867), and a four-volume Catalogue of the John Carter Broivn Library.

BARTLETT, Josiah (1729-05). An Ameri- can sUitesman, bom at Amesbury, ^lass. After but slight study he began medical practice at Kingston, N. H., in 1750, and in 17.54 success- fully introduced Peruvian bark in treatment of angina maligna. He received from the royal Governor, Sir John Wentworth, appointments as a magistrate and as commander of a militia regiment, but in 1775 was deprived of both in consdjuence of his Whig activities. A delegate in 1775 and 1776 to the Continental Congress, he was the first member to vote for the Declara- tion of Independence, and the first, after the President, to sign the document. He became chief-justice of the New Hampshire court of common pleas in 1770, a judge of the State Supreme Court in 1784, and Chief .Justice in 1788. From 1790 to 179.3 he was President of New Hampshire, and in the latter year, under the new Constitution, was elected Governor. He was the principal founder (1791) of the New Hanipsliire Medical Society.

BARTLETT, (1865— ). An American sculptor, born at New Haven, Conn. He began the study of sculpture in Boston under Fremiet, and at 14 first exhibited at the Salon. He entered the Ecole des Beau.-Arts, and was a pupil there of Cavalier. He received hon- orable mention at the Salon in 1887, and was made a member of the Legion of Honor ( 1895). Among the notable works of this sculptor are the equestrian statue of General McClellan in Philadelphia, the statue of Gen. Joseph Warren in Boston, the equestrian statue of Lafayette, presented by the school children of the United States to France, and now in the square of the Louvre, Paris; statues of Columbus and Michel- angelo in the Congressional Library at Wash- ington, and other works in the permanent art collections of Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, and in the Luxembourg JIuseum in Paris.

BARTLETT, Samuel Colcord (1817-98). An American clergyman and educator, born at Salisbury, N. H. He graduated at Dartmouth College in 1836 and at Andover Theological Seminary in 1842; was ordained to the ministry in 184.3,' and from 1843 to 1846 was pastor of the CongregatioTi.nl Church of Monson, Mass. From 1846 imtil 1852 he was professor of intel- lectual philosophy at Western Reserve College (Hudson, Ohio) ; from 1852 to 1857 was pastor of the Franklin Street C(mgregational Church, Manchester, N. H., and in 1857-58, of the New England Church, Chicago; and from 1858 to 1S77 was professor of biblical literature in the Chicago Theological Seminary. He was, from 1877 to 1892, president of Dartmouth College, which, during his administration, was greatly expanded as to curriculum, buildings, and funds. He received the degree of D.D. from Dartmouth, and that of LL.D. from Dartmouth and Princeton. A distinguished biblical scholar, he ])ul)lished, in addition to contributions to the Hiblintheea Hac- ra, the Princeton Review, and other periodicals; Life and Death Eternal ( 1866) ; From Egypt to Palestine (1879); Sovrees of History in the Pentateuch (188.1) ; The Veracity of the Mexa- ieiieh (1897) and other works.

BARTLETT, William Francis (1840-70). An .American soldier. He was born at Haverhill, Mass., and studied at Harvard for three years, but left college in 1861 to join the Federal Army. He received a captain's commission in August, served in the battle of Ball's Bluff, and at the siege of Yorktow-n received a wound which neces- sitated the amputation of his leg. By the spring of 1862 he had recovered sufficiently to graduate with his class at Harvard. He organized the Forty-ninth Massachusetts Volunteers in Sep- tember, 1862, and served as colonel in General Banks's Louisiana expedition. He was wounded at Port Hudson, and again in the Wilderness campaign, was taken prisoner at the explosion of the Petersburg mine, was confined for a time in Libby Prison, and after his release was placed in command of the First Division of the Ninth Army Corps. In June, 1804, he was raised to the rank of brigadier-general of volunteers, and in March, 1865, was brevetted major-general of volunteers for 'gallant and meritorious .seiwices during the war.' As a soldier he was noted for his intrepidity, coolness, and daring in action. Aft<>r the war, until the time of his death, he was engaged in business in Richmond. Va., and Pitts- field, Mass. Consult Palfrey, Memoir of William Francis BartJett (Boston, 1878).

BARTLETT, William Henry (1809-54). An English topographical draughtsman. He was born in London, and began his career as an assistant to John Britton, the architect, for whose Cathedral Antiquities of Enqland (1814- 32) he furnished numerous sketches. A series of volumes, containing more than 1000 of his drawings made during extended travel in Euro])e and the Orient, were published by Dr. Beattie, his companion on several of these voy- ages, and others. Between the years 1836 and 1852 Bartlett made four voyages to the United States and Canada, the fruits of which appeared in American Scenery (1840), and Canadian Scenery (1842), with text by N. P. Willis. Be- sides his frequent contributions to works of art, he published the well-known books: Walks About Jerusalem (1844); Forty Days in the Desert (1848) ; The Nile Boat: or Olimpses of Egypt (1849) ; Footsteps of Our Lord and His Apos- ties in Syria, Oreece, and Italy ( 1851 ) ; The Pilgrim Fathers (1853); Jerusalem Revisited (1855).

BARTLETT, (1809-93). An American soldier and scientist, born in Lancaster County, Pa., and educated at West Point, where he .graduated in 1826. As a lieutenant of engineers he sered as assistant professor at West Point, from 1827 to 1829, and again from 1834 to 1836 as acting professor of natural and experimental philosophy. From 1828 to 1832 he was engaged in construction work at Fort Monroe, and from 1832 to 1834 was assistant to the chief engineer at Washington, D. C. In 1836 he resigned his lieutenancy in the