Sullivan County IN Archives Biographies.....Bartlett, J. C. 1842 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

   DR. J. C. BARTLETT, editor and proprietor of the Sullivan Times, was born
near Marietta, Ohio, September 23, 1842, and was there reared on the farm of his
parents. Levi and Maria (Dickey) Bartlett, who were natives respectively of
Rhode Island and Ohio and of English and Irish descent. Ohio was the home of J.
C. Bartlett until within the past three years. After attending the common
schools of the neighborhood, he entered the Ohio State University at Athens,
remaining in the preparatory department of that institution two years, then
completing the Sophomore year in the classical department of the university
proper. Succeeding this he read medicine at Marietta, attended a regular course
of lectures at the Medical College of Ohio, which graduated him in March, 1865.
In 1864, he was made one of the house physicians of St. Anthony's Hospital,
which position he retained until one year after graduation. He located in his
native town to practice his profession, but in August, 1867, entered the medical
department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where, besides taking a
regular course of instruction, took a special course in analytical and applied
chemistry, for which he was given a special diploma. From 1869 to 1880, Dr.
Bartlett was engaged in the practice of medicine at Canton and Marietta, Ohio,
but owing to ill-health he was compelled to relinquish his profession for a
business that required less exposure. In April, 1881. he came to Sullivan, Ind.,
and purchased the True Democracy, which he immediately changed to the Times, and
which he has since conducted with both credit and profit to himself. January 27,
1870, Dr. Bartlett and Miss Mary F., daughter of Dr. Benjamin F. and Sal lie M.
(Alcock) Hart, of Marietta, Ohio, were united in marriage, the bride's birth
occurrincy January 27. 1850. Dr. Bartlett is a member of the Blue Lodge in
Masonry, is a Democrat in politics, an able editor and an esteemed citizen.

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HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES,
STATE OF INDIANA,
FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1884.

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