Bartlett, E(mery) S.

BARTLETT, STEVENS

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 1/9/2013 at 08:05:02

The History of Poweshiek County, Iowa
Des Moines: Union Hist. Co., 1880.

BARTLETT, E.S.—Grinnell Twp—pg 883-4. Butcher, Grinnell. Was born in Bath, New Hampshire, September 7, 1832, where he received an education and followed farming until October, 1853, when he moved to Michigan, where he attended the Olivet Institute for one term, and engaged in teaching school. In the spring of 1854 he moved to Wisconsin, engaging in farming till September, 1854, when he came to this county, locating at Grinnell, where he learned the carpenter’s trade, at which he continued two years. In the fall of 1873 he engaged in his present business. Mr. B. was married, in New Hampshire, December 11, 1855, to Miss Hannah Stevens, by whom he has three children: Arthur W., Stella T. and Katie H.