David Lewis Bartlett | |
|---|---|
.png) Bartlett in 1886 | |
| Born | December 6, 1816 |
| Died | May 11, 1899 (aged 82) Baltimore, Maryland |
| Resting place | Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore |
| Occupation(s) | Industrialist, Philanthropist |
| Known for | Bartlett Hayward Company, 1887 Baltimore mayoral election |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) |
Sarah Abbe
(m. 1845; died 1866)Julia E. Pettibone
(m. 1867; died 1932) |
| Children | Edward L. Bartlett, Ella C. Robinson |
| Parent(s) | Daniel Bartlett, Louisa Stockbridge Bartlett |
Early Life edit
By 1840, Bartlett was engaged in the “Foundry, Hardware and Stove Manufacturing business” in Hartford, Connecticut with David Culver under the firm name of Culver & Bartlett.[2] This partnership was dissolved in 1842, after which Culver continued to operate the foundry in his own name.[3] Bartlett meanwhile left Hartford, moving his business Baltimore after a brief stay in New York City.[4] He established a foundry on President Street in the same year.[5]
Family edit
In January of 1845, Bartlett married another Connecticut native, Sarah Abbe, of Warehouse Point.[6] The two were married until Sarah's death on Sept 9th, 1866.[7] This first marriage yielded three children, including Edward L. Bartlett and Ella C. Robinson.
A year after his first wife's death, in 1867, Bartlett married again, this time to Mary Gleason (Parsons) Pettibone of Simsbury, Connecticut. This second marriage yielded two children, but neither survived infancy.[8]
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The late David L. Bartlett, of Baltimore, was born in Hadley, Massachusetts, on December 6, 1816, and died in Baltimore on May 11, 1899. His father, Daniel Bartlett, married Louisa Stockbridge, and he was, therefore, on both sides of the family, descended from old Massachusetts stock. The Bartlett ancestry goes back in America to the earlier settlers of the Colony of Massachusetts, and in the three centuries which have since elapsed the family has given to our country at least fifteen men of wide reputation and large usefulness, among them Josiah Bartlett, of New’ Hampshire, w’ho was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and a Chief Justice of his State. The family is an ancient one in England, w^here it occupied many honorable positions through many centuries.
David L. Bartlett was educated in the public schools of Hartford, Connecticut, with a short academic course, and after leaving school, was apprenticed to an irOn firm in Hartford to learn the first details of that business. His ability received quick recognition, and he accepted a call to New York, where he developed immense business capacity and sound judgment. In 1844 he decided to locate in Baltimore, and became a member of the firm of Hayward, Bartlett & Co., manufacturers of architectural iron, etc. The business increased with great rapidity. The success of their system of heating and ventilation is best shown in the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Some of their finest work is in many of the large public buildings in Washington, in the New York Post Office, in the Custom House in New Orleans, and in the Mint in San Francisco. Fine specimens of their construction of large gas holders are in Havana and in nearly all the large cities of the Union. Their iron lighthouses are on many points of our coasts. The firm has always stood for the highest integrity, and for singularly cordial relations with other firms representing the best in the land.
In 1863 the Winans Locomotive Works passed into their hands, and continued in connection with their other iron work. This business, more than seventy years established, is now' a corporation conducted under the style of Bartlett-Hayward Company, and is one of the large concerns of the East, giving employment to several thousand men.
Mr. Bartlett’s success in business was notable; but he was much more than a successful business man. Possessed of a large measure of public spirit, he took a keen and active interest in everything bearing upon the public welfare of the city, frequently serving on committees concerned in public matters. He was a trustee and President of the IMcDonough Institute for Boys, President of the Druid Hill Park Board, President of the Farmers and Planters Bank, Treasurer of the Oratorio Society, and senior vestryman of Grace Episcopal Church. A man of fine appearance and genial manners, his personal popularity was great, and this enabled him to be much more useful in all those activities which aroused his interest. For politics he had but little taste. During the existence of the Whig party he affiliated with that organization. Upon its dissolution he became a member of the Republican party.
He was twice married. His first wife was Miss Sarah Abbey, to whom he was married in January, 1845; and of this marriage there were three children, of whom one, Mrs. C. P. Robinson, of Brooklyn, New York, is now Imng. After the death of his first wife, he married on the 15th of April, 1868, Miss Julia E. Pettibone, daughter of Giles and Mary Gleason (Parsons) Pettibone, of Simsbury, Connecticut. Of this marriage two children were born, neither of which survived the years of infancy.
Mrs. Bartlett, who survives her husband, traces her American ancestry back to Samuel Pettibone, French Huguenot, who migrated from Massachusetts to Connecticut, in 1630, being one of the first settlers of Connecticut, and settled in Weatogue, the Indian name of that section of Simsbury owned by the Pettibone family. Two descendants of Samuel served with distinction in the Revolutionary War, — Colonel Jonathan Pettibone, who led a regiment and died in the service, and Elijah Pettibone who also led a Connecticut regiment and survived the war. A grandson of Colonel Elijah Pettibone, Augustus H. Pettibone, served in the Civil War, and has since held many prominent positions in Tennessee, among them that of representative in Congress for six years.
The Pettibone family, once very numerous in Connecticut, has become almost extinct there; but descendants of the family are now found scattered over the Union. Through the female line, Mrs. Bartlett is descended direct from Governor Dudley, first colonial governor of Massachusetts, and from Governor Leet, of Connecticut.
During his life, David L. Bartlett held membership in a number of clubs, such as the Union League of New York, the Maryland, the Merchants and Manufacturers, and the Kennels and Country Club of Baltimore. He was one of the officers of a club known as the Wednesday Club, not now in existence.
He found his recreation in yachting, fishing, driving and golf. He became quite an extensive traveler, and wrote some very interesting letters from Europe, which v^^ere privately printed in 1886. An extensive reader in nearly every direction, he became a man of great information, especially well-informed upon art subjects, and to this added not only sound taste in music, but was himself an excellent musician.
He retained his physical and mental strength throughout life, and when he passed away, in his eighty-third year, he left behind the reputation of an able business man of sterling integrity and cultivated judgment, of fine social qualities, and a citizen who had been of great value to the community.
Notes edit
- ^ "David L. Bartlett's Personalty". The Baltimore Sun. Baltimore, Maryland. 1900-11-09. p. 7. Retrieved 2019-07-10.
- ^ "Copartnership". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. 1840-03-07. p. 3. Retrieved 2019-07-10.
- ^ "Notice". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. 1842-04-19. p. 3. Retrieved 2019-07-03.
- ^ Steiner et al. 1907, p. 51.
- ^ Latrobe 1941, p. 2.
- ^ "Marriages". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. 1845-01-21. p. 3. Retrieved 2019-07-10.
- ^ "Died". The Baltimore Sun. Baltimore, Maryland. 1866-09-19. p. 2. Retrieved 2019-07-03.
- ^ Steiner et al. 1907, p. 53.
References edit
- Steiner, Bernard Christian; Meekins, Lynn Roby; Carroll, David Henry; Boggs, Thomas G. (1907). Men of mark in Maryland ... biographies of leading men of the state ... Illustrated with many full page engravings. Baltimore, Washington: B.F. Johnson, Inc.
- Latrobe, Ferdinand Claiborne (1941). Iron Men and Their Dogs. Baltimore: Ivan R. Drechsler.