Nathan Harris Bartlett was born in Patten, Maine, Sept. 15,1848, son of Jeremiah W. and Lydia (Dolbier) Bartlett, both natives of Maine, and descended from Puritan stock. He was one of the first pioneers of Cameron and for many years prominently identified with the lumber industry in this region and had seen the village grow from a stump-covered waste to a thriving community.
Nathan’s father, Jeremiah W. Bartlett, was born in the same log house in which his father was born in New Portland, Maine, and like him was a blacksmith. He came to Galesville, Trempealeau County, Wis., in 1862, opened a shop and continued to work at his trade until his death in 1918. By his first wife, Lydia Dolbier, he had six children: Hiram C., Henry D., Albert B., Nathan Harris, Lucinda, and George P. Bartlett. By his second wife, Josephine Dolbier, sister of his first wife, he had nine children of which the following are know: Allie, William, Nettie, Charles, Frank, Carrie, Ed, and Wyman Bartlett.
Nathan was a youngster of fourteen when his parents came to Galesville, and here he was reared to young manhood. At the age of nineteen, with headquarters at Chippewa Falls, he became identified with the lumber business. His first experience was driving a team of eight months in a camp above Belills Falls, on the Chippewa River. The camp was the only evidence of civilization in the entire region. Indians were ranging on every side and for months he saw no white faces except those of his fellow workers. For thirty-two long winters thereafter he spent his winters in logging camps along the Chippewa, near a quarter of a century of which time he was a contractor for the Weyerhauser interests. In the summers he worked on log drives and in other departments of the lumbering industry. As the pine diminished he gradually took up farming in Stanley Township.
On April 19, 1892, he took up his residence on the site of old Cameron, making his home for a while with Lou. Barton until he got a log house ready for occupancy. Then he put up a large tent and there accommodated the men working on the construction of the C., St. Paul & M. Railway. Thereafter he continued to farm until 1908 when he moved to Cameron. He took his present position as highway patrolman in 1917. He has been too busy to mingle actively in public affairs, but while living in Bloomer Township, Chippewa County, he did good service as a member of the town board for five years, also school clerk ten years.
Mr. Bartlett was married August 11, 1870, at Chippewa Falls to Lucinda Crystal, daughter of John and Jane Crystal, natives of Canada. She came with her parents to Illinois when she was four year old, the family later moving to Chippewa Falls, where her father died in 1899 and the mother in 1906. Her brothers and sisters were: Thomas (first), William, Elizabeth, Jennie, John and Thomas (second) Crystal
Nathan and Lucinda were blessed with seven children: Charles E.; Carrie, wife of Alex S. Reid of California; Ida, wife of George Beckwith of Moline, Ill.; Lottie, wife of Raymond Burton, of Cameron; J.W., at Moline, Ill; Arthur W.; and Amy, who married Andrew Nelson.
On August 11, 1920, Mr. & Mrs. Bartlett celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. Their old friends and many of the younger people thronged their home and wished them felicitations, while they talked over the long half century and reviewed its joys and sorrows. Mr. and Mrs. Bartlett are highly regarded in the community, and their children have all done well in life. [Abstracted from the History of Barron County, page 535, published in 1922, by H.C. Cooper, Jr & Co., Minneapolis, Minnesota.]
Nathan’s father, Jeremiah W. Bartlett, was born in the same log house in which his father was born in New Portland, Maine, and like him was a blacksmith. He came to Galesville, Trempealeau County, Wis., in 1862, opened a shop and continued to work at his trade until his death in 1918. By his first wife, Lydia Dolbier, he had six children: Hiram C., Henry D., Albert B., Nathan Harris, Lucinda, and George P. Bartlett. By his second wife, Josephine Dolbier, sister of his first wife, he had nine children of which the following are know: Allie, William, Nettie, Charles, Frank, Carrie, Ed, and Wyman Bartlett.
Nathan was a youngster of fourteen when his parents came to Galesville, and here he was reared to young manhood. At the age of nineteen, with headquarters at Chippewa Falls, he became identified with the lumber business. His first experience was driving a team of eight months in a camp above Belills Falls, on the Chippewa River. The camp was the only evidence of civilization in the entire region. Indians were ranging on every side and for months he saw no white faces except those of his fellow workers. For thirty-two long winters thereafter he spent his winters in logging camps along the Chippewa, near a quarter of a century of which time he was a contractor for the Weyerhauser interests. In the summers he worked on log drives and in other departments of the lumbering industry. As the pine diminished he gradually took up farming in Stanley Township.
On April 19, 1892, he took up his residence on the site of old Cameron, making his home for a while with Lou. Barton until he got a log house ready for occupancy. Then he put up a large tent and there accommodated the men working on the construction of the C., St. Paul & M. Railway. Thereafter he continued to farm until 1908 when he moved to Cameron. He took his present position as highway patrolman in 1917. He has been too busy to mingle actively in public affairs, but while living in Bloomer Township, Chippewa County, he did good service as a member of the town board for five years, also school clerk ten years.
Mr. Bartlett was married August 11, 1870, at Chippewa Falls to Lucinda Crystal, daughter of John and Jane Crystal, natives of Canada. She came with her parents to Illinois when she was four year old, the family later moving to Chippewa Falls, where her father died in 1899 and the mother in 1906. Her brothers and sisters were: Thomas (first), William, Elizabeth, Jennie, John and Thomas (second) Crystal
Nathan and Lucinda were blessed with seven children: Charles E.; Carrie, wife of Alex S. Reid of California; Ida, wife of George Beckwith of Moline, Ill.; Lottie, wife of Raymond Burton, of Cameron; J.W., at Moline, Ill; Arthur W.; and Amy, who married Andrew Nelson.
On August 11, 1920, Mr. & Mrs. Bartlett celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. Their old friends and many of the younger people thronged their home and wished them felicitations, while they talked over the long half century and reviewed its joys and sorrows. Mr. and Mrs. Bartlett are highly regarded in the community, and their children have all done well in life. [Abstracted from the History of Barron County, page 535, published in 1922, by H.C. Cooper, Jr & Co., Minneapolis, Minnesota.]
Nathan Harris Bartlett was born in Patten, Maine, Sept. 15,1848, son of Jeremiah W. and Lydia (Dolbier) Bartlett, both natives of Maine, and descended from Puritan stock. He was one of the first pioneers of Cameron and for many years prominently identified with the lumber industry in this region and had seen the village grow from a stump-covered waste to a thriving community.
Nathan’s father, Jeremiah W. Bartlett, was born in the same log house in which his father was born in New Portland, Maine, and like him was a blacksmith. He came to Galesville, Trempealeau County, Wis., in 1862, opened a shop and continued to work at his trade until his death in 1918. By his first wife, Lydia Dolbier, he had six children: Hiram C., Henry D., Albert B., Nathan Harris, Lucinda, and George P. Bartlett. By his second wife, Josephine Dolbier, sister of his first wife, he had nine children of which the following are know: Allie, William, Nettie, Charles, Frank, Carrie, Ed, and Wyman Bartlett.
Nathan was a youngster of fourteen when his parents came to Galesville, and here he was reared to young manhood. At the age of nineteen, with headquarters at Chippewa Falls, he became identified with the lumber business. His first experience was driving a team of eight months in a camp above Belills Falls, on the Chippewa River. The camp was the only evidence of civilization in the entire region. Indians were ranging on every side and for months he saw no white faces except those of his fellow workers. For thirty-two long winters thereafter he spent his winters in logging camps along the Chippewa, near a quarter of a century of which time he was a contractor for the Weyerhauser interests. In the summers he worked on log drives and in other departments of the lumbering industry. As the pine diminished he gradually took up farming in Stanley Township.
On April 19, 1892, he took up his residence on the site of old Cameron, making his home for a while with Lou. Barton until he got a log house ready for occupancy. Then he put up a large tent and there accommodated the men working on the construction of the C., St. Paul & M. Railway. Thereafter he continued to farm until 1908 when he moved to Cameron. He took his present position as highway patrolman in 1917. He has been too busy to mingle actively in public affairs, but while living in Bloomer Township, Chippewa County, he did good service as a member of the town board for five years, also school clerk ten years.
Mr. Bartlett was married August 11, 1870, at Chippewa Falls to Lucinda Crystal, daughter of John and Jane Crystal, natives of Canada. She came with her parents to Illinois when she was four year old, the family later moving to Chippewa Falls, where her father died in 1899 and the mother in 1906. Her brothers and sisters were: Thomas (first), William, Elizabeth, Jennie, John and Thomas (second) Crystal
Nathan and Lucinda were blessed with seven children: Charles E.; Carrie, wife of Alex S. Reid of California; Ida, wife of George Beckwith of Moline, Ill.; Lottie, wife of Raymond Burton, of Cameron; J.W., at Moline, Ill; Arthur W.; and Amy, who married Andrew Nelson.
On August 11, 1920, Mr. & Mrs. Bartlett celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. Their old friends and many of the younger people thronged their home and wished them felicitations, while they talked over the long half century and reviewed its joys and sorrows. Mr. and Mrs. Bartlett are highly regarded in the community, and their children have all done well in life. [Abstracted from the History of Barron County, page 535, published in 1922, by H.C. Cooper, Jr & Co., Minneapolis, Minnesota.]
Nathan’s father, Jeremiah W. Bartlett, was born in the same log house in which his father was born in New Portland, Maine, and like him was a blacksmith. He came to Galesville, Trempealeau County, Wis., in 1862, opened a shop and continued to work at his trade until his death in 1918. By his first wife, Lydia Dolbier, he had six children: Hiram C., Henry D., Albert B., Nathan Harris, Lucinda, and George P. Bartlett. By his second wife, Josephine Dolbier, sister of his first wife, he had nine children of which the following are know: Allie, William, Nettie, Charles, Frank, Carrie, Ed, and Wyman Bartlett.
Nathan was a youngster of fourteen when his parents came to Galesville, and here he was reared to young manhood. At the age of nineteen, with headquarters at Chippewa Falls, he became identified with the lumber business. His first experience was driving a team of eight months in a camp above Belills Falls, on the Chippewa River. The camp was the only evidence of civilization in the entire region. Indians were ranging on every side and for months he saw no white faces except those of his fellow workers. For thirty-two long winters thereafter he spent his winters in logging camps along the Chippewa, near a quarter of a century of which time he was a contractor for the Weyerhauser interests. In the summers he worked on log drives and in other departments of the lumbering industry. As the pine diminished he gradually took up farming in Stanley Township.
On April 19, 1892, he took up his residence on the site of old Cameron, making his home for a while with Lou. Barton until he got a log house ready for occupancy. Then he put up a large tent and there accommodated the men working on the construction of the C., St. Paul & M. Railway. Thereafter he continued to farm until 1908 when he moved to Cameron. He took his present position as highway patrolman in 1917. He has been too busy to mingle actively in public affairs, but while living in Bloomer Township, Chippewa County, he did good service as a member of the town board for five years, also school clerk ten years.
Mr. Bartlett was married August 11, 1870, at Chippewa Falls to Lucinda Crystal, daughter of John and Jane Crystal, natives of Canada. She came with her parents to Illinois when she was four year old, the family later moving to Chippewa Falls, where her father died in 1899 and the mother in 1906. Her brothers and sisters were: Thomas (first), William, Elizabeth, Jennie, John and Thomas (second) Crystal
Nathan and Lucinda were blessed with seven children: Charles E.; Carrie, wife of Alex S. Reid of California; Ida, wife of George Beckwith of Moline, Ill.; Lottie, wife of Raymond Burton, of Cameron; J.W., at Moline, Ill; Arthur W.; and Amy, who married Andrew Nelson.
On August 11, 1920, Mr. & Mrs. Bartlett celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. Their old friends and many of the younger people thronged their home and wished them felicitations, while they talked over the long half century and reviewed its joys and sorrows. Mr. and Mrs. Bartlett are highly regarded in the community, and their children have all done well in life. [Abstracted from the History of Barron County, page 535, published in 1922, by H.C. Cooper, Jr & Co., Minneapolis, Minnesota.]
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