BARTLETT, Marcellus

BARTLETT, HANDY, DAWSON

Posted By: Nettie Mae
Date: 1/18/2003 at 22:19:13

SOURCE: "Biographical history of Crawford, Ida and Sac Counties, Iowa" Lewis Pub. Co., Chicago, 1893

MARCELLUS BARTLETT, Odebolt, Iowa, residing on a farm of 240 acres, in Clinton
township, Sac county, has been a citizen of this township since 1875. As one of its
prosperous farmers and representative citizens , it is appropriate that more than a passing
mention should be made of him on these pages.

Mr. Bartlett was born in Essex county, New York, August 3, 1851, son of Ichabod
and Lucinda (Handy) Bartlett, his father being a native New England. They moved West
when Marcellus was quite young and settled in Scott county, Iowa, and at LeClaire, that
county, the mother died when he was four years old, leaving a family of three children, as
follows: James, now a resident near Wiser, Whatcom county, Washington; Marcellus; and
Albert, deceased. After living in Scott county three years and a half, the father moved to
Rock Island county, Illinois, and two years later came back to Iowa, settling in Clinton
county, near DeWitt.

The subject of our sketch grew up on a farm, receiving his education in the district
schools. From Clinton county he went to Linn county, locating six miles west of Cedar
rapids, thence to Boonesborough, Boone county, where he resided two years, thence to
Sac county. His first purchase in this county was eight acres, and to this he has since
added until now he is the owner of 240 acres, all under a high state of cultivation and well
improved, with good buildings. His residence is a story and a half, 14x22 feet, with an L,
12x18 feet; tenant house, 14x22 feet, with an L, 14x14; barn, which was erected 1892, is
52x60 feet. He has a modern wind-pump and a grove and orchard of six acres.

Mr. Bartlett was married at the age of twenty, near DeWitt, Iowa, to Maria Dawson,
a native of Lincolnshire, England, daughter of Thomas and Maria Dawson, natives of that
country. Her father died in Clinton county, Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. Bartlett have had five
children, namely: Hattie May and Carrie Maria, twins, both having been successful
teachers in Sac county, and now are students in the Sioux City University; Mary Lucinda,
who died at the age of nine years and ten months; Nettie B., and Elta.

Politically, Mr. Bartlett is a Prohibitionist. He has filled several of the township offices, and has served as member of the School Board a number of years. He is a
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and is a Class-leader of the same. He has
affiliated with the A. O. U. W. since 1887. A man in the prime of life, Frank and cordial
in manner, active in everything tending to benefit the community in which he loves, he is
popular with all who know him.