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Tennessee. During his service he participated in the battles of Resaca, Lookout Mountain, Peach Tree Creek, and in all the engagements of the Atlanta Campaign. After the close of the war he returned to DuPage County, where he was engaged in farming until 1895 when he removed to Batavia. He was married in 1870 to Miss Annie E. Lehman, of DuPage County.
HENRY B. BARTHOLOMEW (deceased), merchant, Batavia, Ill.; born in Naperville, DuPage County, Ill., Dec. 6, 1852; reared in DuPage County and educated at Warrenville Academy and Northwestern College (Naperville) ; began his business career at Batavia in 1880 in the lumber trade; later embarked in the coal business, but eventually combined the two and added a stock of agricultural implements, carriages and wagons; served as Mayor of Batavia besides holding other local offices. He was married in 1879 to Miss Ida J. Vaughn. Mr. Bartholomew died suddenly in Batavia, Oct. 10, 1901.
LUCIUS BARTHOLOMEW, farmer, Batavia, Kane County, Ill., was born at Whitehall, N. Y., Oct. 29, 1825, son of Thomas Bartholomew; grew to manhood in New York State, and in 1849 came to Illinois, locating near what was known as the Big Woods, in DuPage County, where he was engaged in farming until 1873, when he removed to Batavia, residing at the latter place until the time of his death, which occurred Jan. 26, 1896. Mr. Bartholomew was a deacon in the Baptist church for over forty years. He was married in 1846 to Miss Mary Graves, daughter of Phineas Graves, who settled in Will County, Ill., in 1833, removed to DuPage County three years later, and died in Kane County in 1887.
ABNER R. BARTLETT (deceased), Aurora, physician, and in his earlier life a clergyman, was born in New Hartford, N. Y., in 1812, and was reared in his native State. While a Scholarly man, his education was largely self-acquired, and he brought to the study of theology a mind trained by self-culture, to close thinking and reasoning. The celebrated pulpit orator of the Universalist church. Dr. E. H. Chapin, was his classmate, and he entered the Universalist ministry under favorable auspices. Dr. Bartlett had pastorates at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Bath, Me., and at various other points. In 1847 he made his first visit to Illinois, and three years later removed his family to Waukegan, where he organized a church. In the meantime he had begun the study of medicine, and after attending lectures at the Homoeopathic College at Cleveland, Ohio, he removed to Aurora in 1852, and began the practice of his profession. In medicine he proved very successful and continued in practice until his death, Dec. 26, 1880. As a pioneer practitioner of homoeopathy in the West, he did much to establish that school of medicine in the confidence of the public. He was identified with medical education as Professor of Physiology in the Cleveland school, which he held for one year, and later in the chair of Physiology in the Homoeopathic Medical College of Missouri, at St. Louis. His wife, born Esther Gage, was a native of Litchfield, N. Y.
DR. FREDERICK L. BARTLETT, physician, son of the preceding, was born in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Dec. 16, 1843, and was nine years old when the family came to Aurora, where he received the greater part of his academic education. At first he read law with the famous firm of Wagner & Canfield, of Aurora, and in 1866 graduated from the Law Department of the University of Michigan, but two years later was a graduate of the Homoeopathic Medical College of Missouri, at St. Louis, very soon becoming a practitioner of medicine in Aurora in association with his father. Rapidly attaining prominence in his profession, he was speedily recognized as a leading exponent of homoeopathy up to the time of his retirement from professional life in 1899. He was elected Mayor of Aurora in 1877, and for many years was a member of the Board of Education, long serving as its President. In the establishment of the Aurora Free Public Library, Dr. Bartlett played an important part. A prominent Republican, he has taken an important part in political affairs, and has been intimately associated with many of the leading men of Northern Illinois. Dr. Bartlett was married in 1879 to Miss Arvilla A. Carter, of Aurora, and their son, Frederick A. Bartlett, physician, was born in Aurora, Ill., June 26, 1876, was educated in the Aurora schools, graduating from the West Aurora high school in 1894, and three years later from the Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago. He began practice immediately with his father, and Dr., C. E. Colwell, who had
