Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Bartlett, William F 1858 - 
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Author: History of Grundy County IL 1914

Bartlett, William F. - A number of Grundy county men, after engaging in  
various lines of endeavor, come to the conclusion that there is more profit in 
tilling the soil in this vicinity, and so devote their attention to several 
kinds of agricultural activity. One of the men now engaged in farming and also 
in growing fruit and raising chickens is William F. Bartlett, of Wauponsee 
Township. Mr. Bartlett was born in Saratoga Township, July 16, 1858, a son of 
Jonas and Luna (Wilkins) Bartlett, early settlers of Grundy County, who 
resided in Wauponsee Township for many years. There the father died October 9, 
1912.

After completing his course in the public schools of his district, Mr. 
Bartlett attended the Morris Normal school, and then studied dentistry, and 
afterward practiced his profession at Sheridan, Ill., for a year, and for two 
years at South Bend, Ind. He then went to Coal City, Grundy County and while 
practicing there, embarked in a job printing business. This grew so rapidly 
that he felt encouraged to found the Coal City "News", the first newspaper in 
that locality. In 1898 he sold his paper and printing office, and went to 
Chicago, where he was a conductor on one of the electric street railroads for 
seven and one-half years. While living in Chicago, he was appointed deputy 
assessor of Cook County, and faithfully discharged the duties of that 
important office.  In the meantime, however, he felt a desire to get back to 
the soil, and moved to a farm of twenty acres in Wauponsee Township, where he 
is now raising fruit and Plymouth Rock chickens, and is meeting with a well-
merited success.

Mr. Bartlett was married March 4, 1886, to Sarah Marshall, born in Goose Lake 
Township, daughter of William Marshall. Mr. and Mrs. Bartlett became the 
parents of the following children: Eva, who is Mrs. Melvin T. Canfield of 
Antigo, Wis.; Alice, who is Mrs. E. E. Fraley of Carbon Hill, Ill.; William, 
who died in 1905, aged fifteen years; and Ethel, at home. Mr. Bartlett belongs 
to the Knights of Pythias of Coal City. A man broadened by experiences along 
different business lines, Mr. Bartlett is well fitted to bring out of any work 
in which he is engaged, all that there is in it, and he is forging ahead very 
rapidly.

page 761

Additional Comments:
Source:  History of Grundy County, Illinois, Chicago: Munsell Publishing Co. 
Publishers; 1914

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