C. D. BARTLETT
C. D. Bartlett is a native of Franklin county, Massachusetts, born March 5, 1828. He is a son of Chester and Sophia (Pulsifer) Bartlett, were also natives of Franklin county, and the parents of three children, two daughters and one son. Chester Bartlett was a shoemaker by trade and followed that business for many years. In 1843 he left Massachusetts for the, then, far west. He located in Hennepin, Putnam county, Illinois, where he engaged in the boot and shoe trade. He died in that county in 1850, aged sixty-one years. He was a firm supporter of the Democatic [sic Democratic] party and cast his first vote for Jackson, for president. The subject of this sketch obtained his education in the common schools of his native State. He was married March 17, 1S50, to Mary J. Sandham, who died in 1865,at Hennepin, Illinois. By this union there were two children--Mary A., now the wife of A. K. Cassel, of Lawn Ridge, Marshall county, Illinois, and Lizzie, of Hennepin, Illinois. Mr. Bartlett was again married in the spring of 1867, to Mrs. Araminta (Boone) McMahon, widow of James McMahon. In the spring of 1869, Mr. Bartlett came to Anita, Cass county, and built the first house in the place after the location of the town. He kept a boarding house one and a half years, then built the Anita House, which was the first hotel of the town. He is at present engaged in the insurance business. He has held the office of justice of the peace eight years and is also a notary. Mr. Bartlett came to the county at an early day, when the country was new and the prairie unbroken, and has witnessed its transformation into a populous and wealthy community.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 700-701.
