Bartlesville
a city of Oklahoma, the county-seat of Washington co. It is on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fé and the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroads. It is in the Mid-Continent Oil Field, the growth of which has been the most notable phase of the petroleum industry in recent years. The town has a library, a court house, an Elks Home, me , city hall, and other public buildings. There are smelters of zinc and deposits of natural gas. Pop. (1910) 6,181; (1920) 14,417.
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SIR ELLIS ASHMEAD, an English politician, born in Brooklyn, N. Y., of American parents, in 1849; graduated at Christ Church College, Oxford, in 1872; admitted to the bar in 1877; was a member of Parliament from Eye division of Suffolk in 1880-1885; and from Ecclesall division of Suffolk since 1895; was Civil Lord of the Admiralty in 1885-1886, and 1886-1892. He is the author of "The Battlefields of Thessaly" (1897). He died in London, 1902.
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Bartlett (II)
FREDERICK ORIN, an American writer, born in Haverhill, Mass., in 1876. He was educated in the public schools and at Harvard University. For several years he was engaged in newspaper work. His best known books are "The Web of the Golden Spider" (1909); "The Lady of the Lane" (1912); "The Triflers" (1917). He was a frequent contributor of short stories to magazines.
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Bartlett (III)
PAUL WAYLAND, an American sculptor, born in New Haven, Conn., in 1865. He was educated in the public schools of New Haven and Boston and studied sculpture in Paris. At the age of 14 he exhibited a bust of his grandmother in the Paris salon. He made many notable pieces of sculpture, including the statue of General Joseph Warren in Boston, the statue of Lafayette in Paris, which was a gift to France from the school children of the United States, a statue of Columbus in the Congressional Library, six statues on the front of the New York Public Library, and a statue of Benjamin Franklin. His works are found in many of the leading art galleries in the United States and abroad. He was a member of several societies, including the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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Bartlett (IV)
ROBERT ABRAM, an American explorer, born at Brigus, Newfoundland, in 1875. After several years spent at sea he took part in the Peary expedition of 1897-1898 as commander of the vessel. This was followed by several other trips, including the journey with Peary in 1905-1909, which ended in the discovery of the North Pole. He followed this with several other expeditions to the Arctic regions, including the Crocker Land Relief Expedition to North Greenland in 1917. During the World War he was marine superintendent of the Army Transport Service. He was awarded several medals for his services in explorations and received an honorary degree from Bowdoin College in 1920.
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Bartlett (JOHN an American author)
JOHN, an American author and publisher, born in Plymouth, Mass., June 14, 1820; became a publisher in Cambridge in 1836, and senior partner in the Boston publishing house of Little, Brown & Co., in 1878. His works include "Familiar Quotations" (1854); "The Shakespeare Phrase-Book" (1882); "Catalogue of Books on Angling, Including Ichthyology, Pisciculture, etc." (1882); "The Shakespeare Index"; "The Complete Concordance to Shakespeare's Dramatic Works" (1894); and "Poems." He died Dec. 3, 1905.
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Bartlett (V)
SAMUEL COLCORD, an American educator, born in Salisbury, N. H., Nov. 25, 1817; was educated at Dartmouth College, teaching there and at Andover; was pastor of a church at Monson, Mass.; subsequently Professor of Philosophy in Western Reserve University, Ohio. He afterward became pastor of a church at Manchester, N. H., and later of the New England Church in Chicago. In 1858 he was made Professor of Biblical Literature in the Chicago Theological Seminary, where he remained until 1873. In 1877 he became president of Dartmouth College, resigning in 1892. He was author of "From Egypt to Palestine" (1879), and also wrote a part of "Smith's Dictionary of the Bible." He died in Hanover, N. H., Nov. 16, 1898.
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Barton
JAMES LEVI, an American clergyman, born in Charlotte, Vt., in 1855. He graduated from Middlebury College in 1881, and from the Hartford Theological Seminary in 1885. In the latter year he was ordained to the Congregational ministry. He served as missionary at Harpoot, Turkey, from 1885 to 1892. In 1893 he was appointed president of the Euphrates College at Harpoot. He served as a member of missionary deputations to Japan, India, and China. He wrote much on subjects connected with missionary work. The best known of his books are "The Missionary and His Critics"; "Daybreak in Turkey"; "Human Progress Through Missions"; "Educational Missions."
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Barton (II)
WILLIAM ELEAZAR, an American clergyman and writer writer, born in Sublette, Ill., in 1861. He graduated from Berea College in 1885 and from the Oberlin Theological Seminary in 1890. In 1885 he was ordained to the Congregational ministry and filled pastorates in Ohio and Boston and Chicago, until 1899. He served on the editorial staff of several religious papers and was lecturer of applied practical theology at the Chicago Theological Seminary from 1905 to 1909. From 1911 he lectured at the same institution on ecclesiastical law. He was a member of the editorial staff of the "Youth's Companion" and was an officer of many theological and missionary societies. He was a prolific writer on religious and historical topics. Among his works "A Hero in Homespun" are (1897); "The Psalms and Their Story" (1898); "I Go A-Fishing" (1901); "Bible Classics" (1911); "Into All the World" (1911). American
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Bartram
JOHN, an botanist, born in Chester co., Pa., March 1699; was called the "father of 169 23, American botany," and founded at Kingsessing the first botanical garden in America, Linnæus termed him "the greatest natural botanist in the world." He published "Observations on the Inhabitants, Climate, Soil, Diverse Productions, Animals, etc., Made in His Travels e from Pennsylvania to Lake Ontario," and a similar volume on eastern Florida (1766). He died at Kingsessing, near Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 22, 1777.
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Bartram, John
John (1699-1777), a Quaker farmer. A native of Pennsylvania. Bartram became interested in botany after he was twenty-four years old. He corresponded with the eminent botanists of Europe, to whom he was able to send many new plants to be named. Just imagine the interest with which he sent a new lady's slipper , Cypripedium acaule Ait., to the Kew Garden. Linnaeus pronounced Bartram the greatest natural botanist in the world. He turned his grounds on the Schuylkill River into a botanic garden. Bartram's garden, the first in America, with a stone house built with his own hands, is happily preserved in the park system of Philadelphia. Many of the trees have reached a gigantic size. See Philadelphia 2026 Editor's Note: Bartram is honored as the father of American botany , and his garden on the Schuylkill survives as the oldest botanic garden in North America. He and his son William made a famous rescue: they collected the beautiful Franklin tree (Franklinia), which soon went extinct in the wild — every one alive today descends from the Bartrams' plants. (Ed: BR 2026-06-27)
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