Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Bartlett, George W 1856 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ilfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Deb Haines ddhaines@gmail.com May 8, 2007, 11:57 pm Author: Portrait & Bio Album, 1890 GEORGE W. BARTLETT, Insurance, Real Estate, Loan and Collection Agent, although comparatively a new member of the business circles of Joliet, is advancing rapidly toward the front with bright prospects of soon reaching a place second to none in the community. He is a stirring and energetic man, with such qualifications as especially fit him for his present business, in which he is building up a good trade. He has followed this occupation for the past fourteen years, during which time he has represented such companies as the North America, of Philadelphia; the Phoenix, of Brooklyn; the Hartford, AEtna, Connecticut and Hartford, of Hartford; the Royal, of Liverpool; and the Traders', of Chicago. Those which he now represents are the Continental, of New York, and the Agricultural, of Watertown, N. Y. In Genesee County, N. Y., Nathaniel Bartlett and Emily Gilbert were born, reared and married. They came West in 1855, locating in Grundy County, Ill., where they are yet living. Their family comprises three children—Fred A., a jeweler at Lockport; Elmer E., a molder in Joliet; and George W., our subject. The father is an engineer by trade and has always pursued that avocation. The gentleman whose name introduces this sketch was born December 20, 1856, in Grundy County,and spent the first thirty-two years of his life there. Quite early in life he began to manifest the energy which is so prominent a characteristic of his nature, taking up the occupation of a newsboy in Morris, and learning telegraphy while still a boy, although he never pursued this work. For some time he clerked in a dry-goods store and then took up the insurance business, carrying on at the same time other lines of work. For seven years he clerked for C. H. Gould, President of the Grundy County National Bank, and also looked after the gas fitting in the place. He was the builder and manager of the Telephone Exchange, at Morris, and also of the toll line south of that city, which united the towns of Mazon, Hill Park or Wauponsee, Verona, Kinsman, Gardner and Minooka with the county seat. An important step in the life of Mr. Bartlett took place in September, 1881, it being no less than his marriage with Miss Fannie Zimmerman, whose parents, Mr. and Mrs. Casper Zimmerman have lived in Grundy County a number of years. The happy union has been blessed by the birth of one bright daughter, Carrie M., in whose growing intelligence the parents take great delight. Mr. Bartlett is a member of the Masonic fraternity and the Republican party. Additional Comments: Portrait and Biographical Album of Will County, Illinois, Containing Full Page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County; Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1890 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/will/bios/bartlett1470nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ilfiles/ File size: 3.3 Kb