BIOGRAPHY OF HON. CHARLES H. BARTLETT of Manchester NH ------------------------------------ Information located at http://www.nh.searchroots.com/Manchester On a web site about GENEALOGY AND HISTORY OF MANCHESTER NEW HAMPSHIRE TRANSCRIBED BY JANICE BROWN Please see the web site for my email contact. ---------------------------------- The original source of this information is in the public domain, however use of this text file, other than for personal use, is restricted without written permission from the transcriber (who has edited, compiled and added new copyrighted text to same). ======================================================== SOURCE: Manchester, A Brief Record of its Past and A Picture of Its Present, including an account of is settlement and its growth as town and city; a history of its schools, churches, societies, banks, post-offices, newspapers and manufactures; a description of its government, police and fire department, public buildings, library, water-works, cemeteries, streets, streams, railways and bridges; a complete list of the selectmen, moderators and clerks of the town and members of the councils, marshals and engineers of the city, with the state of the cote for mayor at each election; the story of its part in the war of the rebellion with a complete list of its soldiers who went ot the war; and sketches of its representative citizens; Manchester N.H.; John B. Clark; 1875 ------------------- 376 **** THE HON. CHARLES H. BARTLETT *** Charles Henry Bartlett was born in Sunapee NH, October 15, 1833, and is thus between forty-one and forty-two years of age. He is the son of John and Sarah J. (Sanborn) Bartlett. He had four brothers and three sisters, of whom all but one sister survive. Joseph S. resides in Claremont; Solomon, John Z., George H., Mrs. John Felch, Mrs. Thomas P. SMith, in Sunapee. He was educated at the academies in Washington and New London (NH) this state, and then began the study of law with Gov. Metcalf at Newport. He studied subsequently with George & Foster at Concord and Morrison & Stanley at Manchester, being admitted from the office of the latter to the bar of Hillsborough County in 1858. In that year he began the practice of his profession at Wentworth NH, and in 1863 came to this city [Manchester NH] where he has since practiced, from 1866 till 1868 in company with the late James U. Parker and the remaining time alone. He was clerk of the New Hampshire senate from 1861 to 1865, Gov. Smyth's private secretary in 1865 and 1866, treasurer of the state reform school in 1866 and 1867. In June 1867, he was appointed clerk of the United States district court in New Hampshire, which position he now holds, In the same year he was unanimously elected city solicitor but declined a re-election and in 1872 was elected as the nominee of the Republican party, mayor of the city, and served until February 18, 1873, when he resigned in accordance with the policy of the national government at that time which forbade United States officials from holding offices in the gift of states or towns. His last official act as mayor was to order the city treasurer to pay the amount due him for salary to the Firemen's Relief Association. Mr. Bartlett has been a trustee of the Merrimack River Savings Bank from its beginning in 1874. 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 May 1872. Mr. Bartlett married, December 8, 1858, at Sunapee [NH] Miss Hannah M. Eastman, of Croydon, NH by whom he has one daughter-- Carrie B. Bartlett. 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 everything he has undertaken. He is one of the most practical lawyers in the state and was for several years in charge of the law department of the Mirror, giving general satisfaction, and his withdrawal, when his business compelled it, was a source of much regret to the readers of that paper. (end)