Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Bartlett, James W.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Doylestown A-L


JAMES W. BARTLETT farmer, P.O. Doylestown, was born in 
Philadelphia February 15, 1838, and is a son of James W., 
Sr., and Martha J. (Worthington) Bartlett; his father was a 
native of Strafford county, N. H., and his mother of 
Philadelphia.  The Bartlett family originated from England, 
and has been traced back 800 years.  James Bartlett, Sr., 
was a calico printer by trade, and while very young came to 
Philadelphia with a party of eastern capitalists, who bought 
out a calico printing establishment known as the Le Grange, 
in which he run the first printing machines.  He remained 
there several years, when the company failed and he went to 
Providence, R. I., and worked several years at this trade.  
He then came to Gloucester, N. J., and was superintendent of 
a printing establishment for a few years.  In 1855 he bought 
a farm in Northampton township, where he remained several 
years.  He then sold his place and bought another in 
Buckingham township, where he still resides.  He was the 
father of eleven children, eight living:  Charles H., Edward 
T., James W., Jr., Mahlon W., George W., Winfield S., Martha 
J. and Albert L.   James W., Jr., lived in Philadelphia 
until ten years of age, when he moved to Providence, R. I., 
thence to Bucks county, and went on a farm with his uncle, 
where he remained two years. In the spring of 1860 he began 
butchering, which he continued for seven years at 
Jacksonville, Bucks county.  He then purchased and removed 
to a farm in Northampton township, where he lived until 
1879, when he was elected recorder of deeds, which office he 
held three years.  At the expiration of his term he moved to 
Point Pleasant, N. J., and engaged in the real estate 
business, continuing until 1885, when he moved to 
Doylestown.  He still owns his farm of 65 acres.  He was 
married in September, 1859, to Sarah A., daughter of Jacob 
and Mary A. (Stelle) Brown.  They are the parents of two 
children, one living, Charles E.   Mr. Bartlett is a 
prominent citizen of Bucks county.