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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1896)

W. N. BARTHOLOMEW, one of the leading farmers and stock men of  Warren county,
Iowa, is a gentleman to whom Iowa owes much for the part he has taken in
advancing the stock interests of the State.

   He is a native of McLean county, Illinois, born September 25, 1850, one of
the six children now living of George M. and Mary (Flesher) Bartholomew. The
Bartholomew family is one that has figured conspicuously in the history of
several of the Northern States, especially Indiana. For facts regarding the
ancestry of our subject, the reader is directed to the biography of George M.
Bartholomew, which appears on another page of this volume. When W. N.
Bartholomew was two years old his parents left Illinois and moved over into
Iowa, making settlement at Palmyra, one of the oldest villages in Warren county.
He lived and worked at home until he attained his majority, although he
practically started out for himself when only fifteen years of age, as a
merchant, and when seventeen was taken in as a partner with his father. He
continued merchandising up to 1881, at which time he purchased a farm two miles
south of the town. Soon after, however, he moved back to Palmyra and for several
years thereafter rented his farm. Some twelve years ago he became deeply
interested in improving the breed of horses for farm and general purposes, and
from that time to the present his efforts in this direction have been untiring
and have resulted in signal success. He has owned many of the finest heavy-draft
horses ever imported to this country. Returning to the farm, he has recently
added to its equipment a horse barn fitted up with the most modern conveniences
for stock; and has made numerous other improvements. His home place comprises
320 acres and is particularly adapted for a grain and stock farm. Among his
draft horses the young "British Flag 2d" is one of the finest in the land, and
his mare, "Black Dutchess," which was imported especially for him, is the
largest and heaviest of all the horses ever brought into the State. He has a
magnificent imported, French, thoroughbred coach horse, and a very fine herd of
Shetland ponies. All together he has upon his farm about sixty head of horses
and colts, among them being several standard-bred colts, giving promise of great
speed, Cinchona, a three-year-old, being particularly promising. Also Mr.
Bartholomew has for years paid considerable attention to the breeding of fine
cattle, having tried consecutively the Shorthorns, Red Polls and Herefords. He
has recently purchased a herd of the noted Galloways, a notably hardy and
thrifty breed. Hogs, too, have received no little attention from him, and in
this business he is likewise successful, breeding the Poland-China and Jersey
Reds, now having about 200 head.

   And Mr. Bartholomew has worked in more ways than one in his efforts to
improve the breed of stock in this part of the State. Through his individual
efforts the Breeders' Gazette, the leading stock journal of the United States,
has been widely introduced, he for three years having been the champion agent of
that journal in the United States. Many of the fine herds to be seen all over
this region are the direct result of his work along this line.

   Aside from his home interests, Mr. Bartholomew owns farms in Missouri and
Nebraska, owning in all no less than 1,040 acres. He is a director of the
Farmers' Mutual Insurance Company of Polk and Warren counties. Associated with
John T. Wallace and Lee Talbot, he was largely influential in bringing the
Warren County Agricultural Society up to the point where its fairs were second
to none in the State.

   In March, 1870, Mr. Bartholomew married Miss Mary B. Payne, a native of
Palmyra and daughter of A. and Nancy (Glimpse) Payne. Her father was the first
blacksmith in Warren county. He is still living in Palmyra. Her mother died in
1893. They were the parents of three daughters. Mr. and Mrs. Bartholomew have
eight children, namely: Lenora, Viola, Nellie, Archie, Lula, Camma, Paul and
Walter. The eldest daughter, Lenora, is the wife of W. S. Igo, of Palmyra. The
other children are all at home.

   In politics Mr. Bartholomew has always been a Republican, stanch and true to
the principles advocated by that party. He is a member of College Camp, Modern
Woodmen, and the I. O. O. F. In the prime of life, enterprising and earnest in
all he undertakes, W. N. Bartholomew is one of the men to whom this section of
the State owes much.


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A MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF IOWA

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CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1896

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