Biographies: Col. Edward M. BARTLETT, Eau Claire, Eau Claire Co., WI 

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Col. Edward M. Bartlett came to Dead Lake Prairie, in Dunn County, later 
town of Frankfort, Pepin county, in 1855, and lived there two winters and 
in the southern part of the state one winter.  In 1858 he settled in Dunn 
county, residing in Dunnville and Menomonie until October, 1862.  He was 
commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the Thirtieth Wisconsin Infantry in 
1864, serving until the close of the war.  He was born in the town of 
Victor, Cayuga county, New York, August 3, 1839, came to Wisconsin when 
sixteen years old, and while at East Troy studied law in the office of 
Henry Cousins, and was admitted to the bar in 1856, and settled in Eau 
Claire in 1866, practicing his profession for many years.  He was for 
five years register of the United States land office, and at one time 
city attorney of Eau Claire.  For several years he was municipal judge 
of the city of Eau Claire.


--Taken from "The History of Eau Claire County, 1914, Past & Present",
page 272.