Warren County IA Archives Biographies.....Bartholomew, George M. 1825 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1896)

GEORGE M. BARTHOLOMEW, of Palmyra, Iowa, is one of the old and honored citizens
of Warren county, and few names are more intimately connected with its history
than his. Mr. Bartholomew was born in Owen county, Indiana, July 25, 1825, one
of the seven children of John and Nancy (McNaught) Bartholomew. Of this number
only three are now living: Joseph, of Utah; Amelia, wife of Albert Dawson, of
Colorado; and George M.

   John Bartholomew, his father, was a native of Ohio, born on the frontier in
1788. In early life he was a riverman and pilot upon the Wabash, Ohio and
Mississippi rivers. At the same time he owned a large tract of land and carried
on farming operations. On reaching middle life he left Ohio and moved over into
Indiana, where the country was still more of a wilderness, and in Indiana he
spent the rest of his years, and died at a good old age. His wife's death
preceded his about four years. Her people, the McNaughts, were among the early
settlers of Indiana. The grandfather, Joseph Bartholomew, was a man of national
reputation. He was born in New Jersey, March 15, 1766, was left fatherless in
early boyhood, and for the most part made his own way in the world. Necessity
required him to learn the use of the rifle, and, being possessed of an
indomitable courage, he is found at the age of ten years fighting the Indians,
and a little later serving in the Revolutionary army as a patrol. After the
close of the war he went to Ohio, and subsequently to Kentucky, and in the
latter State gained a great reputation as an Indian fighter. The years 1793 and
1794 he spent as a scout and guide under General Wayne against the Maumee
Indians. In 1800 he settled in Indiana. In 1803 he was commissioned by Governor
Harrison as Major of militia; later was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, and in
1811 was made Colonel. In the historic battle of Tippecanoe, although he was
severely wounded, he bravely held his post, and in recognition of the
distinguished service he rendered at that battle he was promoted and
commissioned Brigadier General of Indiana Territory by the United States
Government. Later he served as Representative and Senator, filled various other
prominent positions; and was one of the men most active in the organization of
the State. Also, he was one of the Commissioners who laid out the city of
Indianapolis in 1821. The county of Bartholomew in Indiana was named in honor of
him by the Legislature. He lived to a good old age and died in Illinois, leaving
behind a record as a patriotic soldier, a legislator and a leading citizen, a
record to which his descendants can point with pardonable pride. The name of
General Bartholomew has gone down in history with the early development of the
great State of Indiana. Tracing the. ancestry of our subject even further back
than this, we find that his great-grandfather, Daniel Bartholomew, was a native
of Germantown, Pennsylvania, and was a member of one of the oldest families of
that State.

   George M. Bartholomew, with whose name we introduced this sketch, was five
years of age when his parents left Indiana and settled in McLean county,
Illinois, where they lived from 1831 to 1851. On the 24th of October of the last
named year he came to Iowa and settled in the town of Palmyra, Warren county,
where he has maintained his residence from that time up to the present. This
county was then but scarcely settled, he being counted among its pioneers. Here
for a period of thirty-three years he was engaged in mercantile pursuits. In the
early days he was obliged to haul his goods from Keokuk, the mouth of the Des
Moines river, and this freighting business was frequently attended with delays
and no little trouble. On first settling here he entered 200 acres of land, and
subsequently bought and sold land extensively for years. At this writing he owns
230 acres in this county, and one of the finest farming regions in the United
States. After a long and active career as a general merchant, Mr. Bartholomew
retired from active life in 1885, and is spending his later years amid the
scenes, of his former activity, enjoying a hearty old age among his children and
friends.

   Mr. Bartholomew was married September 15, 1848, to Miss Mary Flesher, a
native of Ohio, and a member of the large family of children of Solomon Flesher,
also a native of that State. They have had nine children, namely: W. N., Palmyra
township, this county; Ezra, Palmyra; Noah, Des Moines; Laura, wife of J. W.
Morris, Palmyra township; James, a merchant of Palmyra; Minnie, at home; Joseph,
John Albert and Grant, deceased.

   Mr. Bartholomew's political views have been in harmony with the Republican
party ever since it was organized, and for twenty-eight years he served as
Postmaster of Palmyra, his service as such beginning with his appointment under
President Franklin Pierce.


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A MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF IOWA

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1896

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