George F. Bartlett, third son of Ivory Hovey and Betsey (Clark) Bartlett, was born in New Bedford in the old Ricketson house, at the southwest corner of Acushnet avenue and Union street. He attended the public and high schools of New Bedford and Phillips Academy at Andover, and, like his brothers, he entered his father's office at an early age and was trained for the position he was to occupy as partner. He is today one of the best known of the older business men of the city, but has never held public office, with the exception of six years, 1891-1897, as a member of the Board of Public Works, and a director in the Merchants' National Bank since 1866.
He is an industrious and enthusiastic student of genealogy and history and has a carefully preserved collection of historical relics, which will sometime pass into possession of the city. It will be remembered that this firm owned the famous old ship Progress, which figured in the "Arctic disaster of 1871," sailed with the "Stone Fleet," and was finally sold by Mr. Bartlett to Henry E. Weaver of Chicago for the World's Columbian Exposition, where it was exhibited.
Mr. Bartlett married, in 1852, Clara Gordon Nye, daughter of Gideon Nye of Acushnet, and of their eight children, only three, sons Gideon Nye and Clarance Hathaway and daughter Clara Nye, are now living (in 1899).
The genealogy of the Bartlett family is interesting, the original Bartlett in America, Robert, by name, having come to Plymouth Colony in 1623, in the ship Anne. He married Mary Warren and thus Joined the two families. His descendants lived in the vicinity of Plymouth several generations, and Betsey Clark, who married Ivory Hovey Bartlett, was also directly descended from Puritan stock, having been the granddaughter of Israel Clark of Manonset Ponds.
From: "Our County and It's People,
A Descriptive and Biographical History of
Bristol County, Massachusetts"
Prepared and published under the auspices of
The Fall River News and The Taunton Gazette
With assistance of Hon. Alanson Borden.
The Boston History Company, Publishers, 1899.
He is an industrious and enthusiastic student of genealogy and history and has a carefully preserved collection of historical relics, which will sometime pass into possession of the city. It will be remembered that this firm owned the famous old ship Progress, which figured in the "Arctic disaster of 1871," sailed with the "Stone Fleet," and was finally sold by Mr. Bartlett to Henry E. Weaver of Chicago for the World's Columbian Exposition, where it was exhibited.
Mr. Bartlett married, in 1852, Clara Gordon Nye, daughter of Gideon Nye of Acushnet, and of their eight children, only three, sons Gideon Nye and Clarance Hathaway and daughter Clara Nye, are now living (in 1899).
The genealogy of the Bartlett family is interesting, the original Bartlett in America, Robert, by name, having come to Plymouth Colony in 1623, in the ship Anne. He married Mary Warren and thus Joined the two families. His descendants lived in the vicinity of Plymouth several generations, and Betsey Clark, who married Ivory Hovey Bartlett, was also directly descended from Puritan stock, having been the granddaughter of Israel Clark of Manonset Ponds.
From: "Our County and It's People,
A Descriptive and Biographical History of
Bristol County, Massachusetts"
Prepared and published under the auspices of
The Fall River News and The Taunton Gazette
With assistance of Hon. Alanson Borden.
The Boston History Company, Publishers, 1899.
George F. Bartlett, third son of Ivory Hovey and Betsey (Clark) Bartlett, was born in New Bedford in the old Ricketson house, at the southwest corner of Acushnet avenue and Union street. He attended the public and high schools of New Bedford and Phillips Academy at Andover, and, like his brothers, he entered his father's office at an early age and was trained for the position he was to occupy as partner. He is today one of the best known of the older business men of the city, but has never held public office, with the exception of six years, 1891-1897, as a member of the Board of Public Works, and a director in the Merchants' National Bank since 1866.
He is an industrious and enthusiastic student of genealogy and history and has a carefully preserved collection of historical relics, which will sometime pass into possession of the city. It will be remembered that this firm owned the famous old ship Progress, which figured in the "Arctic disaster of 1871," sailed with the "Stone Fleet," and was finally sold by Mr. Bartlett to Henry E. Weaver of Chicago for the World's Columbian Exposition, where it was exhibited.
Mr. Bartlett married, in 1852, Clara Gordon Nye, daughter of Gideon Nye of Acushnet, and of their eight children, only three, sons Gideon Nye and Clarance Hathaway and daughter Clara Nye, are now living (in 1899).
The genealogy of the Bartlett family is interesting, the original Bartlett in America, Robert, by name, having come to Plymouth Colony in 1623, in the ship Anne. He married Mary Warren and thus Joined the two families. His descendants lived in the vicinity of Plymouth several generations, and Betsey Clark, who married Ivory Hovey Bartlett, was also directly descended from Puritan stock, having been the granddaughter of Israel Clark of Manonset Ponds.
From: "Our County and It's People,
A Descriptive and Biographical History of
Bristol County, Massachusetts"
Prepared and published under the auspices of
The Fall River News and The Taunton Gazette
With assistance of Hon. Alanson Borden.
The Boston History Company, Publishers, 1899.
He is an industrious and enthusiastic student of genealogy and history and has a carefully preserved collection of historical relics, which will sometime pass into possession of the city. It will be remembered that this firm owned the famous old ship Progress, which figured in the "Arctic disaster of 1871," sailed with the "Stone Fleet," and was finally sold by Mr. Bartlett to Henry E. Weaver of Chicago for the World's Columbian Exposition, where it was exhibited.
Mr. Bartlett married, in 1852, Clara Gordon Nye, daughter of Gideon Nye of Acushnet, and of their eight children, only three, sons Gideon Nye and Clarance Hathaway and daughter Clara Nye, are now living (in 1899).
The genealogy of the Bartlett family is interesting, the original Bartlett in America, Robert, by name, having come to Plymouth Colony in 1623, in the ship Anne. He married Mary Warren and thus Joined the two families. His descendants lived in the vicinity of Plymouth several generations, and Betsey Clark, who married Ivory Hovey Bartlett, was also directly descended from Puritan stock, having been the granddaughter of Israel Clark of Manonset Ponds.
From: "Our County and It's People,
A Descriptive and Biographical History of
Bristol County, Massachusetts"
Prepared and published under the auspices of
The Fall River News and The Taunton Gazette
With assistance of Hon. Alanson Borden.
The Boston History Company, Publishers, 1899.
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