- JOSEPH BARTLETT, the well-known miller at Attica, Green county,
was born in Wiltshire,
- England, Aug. 1, 1825, and in the course of his long and
honorable career has demonstrated the possession of manly and
commendable qualities far beyond the general run of the world.
He has passed the years of his life engaged in a time-honored
occupation, and has made many friends by his upright and genial
character.
- Thomas and Sarah (COOL) BARTLETT, parents of the Attica miller,
were both natives of
- England, and reared a family of five sons and five daughters,
six of whom are now living: Joseph, whose name begins this article,
and who is the eldest; Thomas; John; Mary, the widow of Fred
COOL; Emma, the wife of John RICHARDS; Sarah. The father was
a farmer, and died in England in 1875, at the age of seventy-three
years. His widow died in 1878, at the age of seventy-six. They
were both members of the Episcopal Church. Joseph BARTLETT, the
paternal grandfather, was a farmer in England, reared a large
family, and died in his native country when he had reached the
age of seventy-five. The maternal grandfather of Joseph BARTLETT
was a dealer in meats, and lived to advanced years.
- Joseph BARTLETT grew to manhood in his native community,
where he received his education,
- finishing in a college. When a small boy he began his life-work
of milling, which has always been his occupation. In 1849 he
came to America, locating in Oswego, N.Y., where he remained
but a short time, when he went to Canada. After a brief stay
in that country, he returned to Oswego and came to Janesville,
Wis., there working in the mill of Mr. JACKMAN for a year. Mr.
BARTLETT then engaged in milling at Albany, Wis., where he remained
about two years, and in 1853 came to Attica, where two years
later he built a watermill having a capacity of forty barrels
daily; this he owns. It is both a roller and a stone mill.
- On Nov. 26, 1853, Mr. BARTLETT married Miss Eliza PRICE,
who was born Sept. 18, 1835,
- a daughter of Thomas PRICE. Mr. and Mrs. BARTLETT are the
parents of the following children; Emert, who married John DAVIS,
is living in Albany, and is rearing a family of five children:
Elizabeth married William QUALLEY, of Exeter township, and has
five children: Sarah married Norman JIPSON, of Everly, Iowa,
and has a family of children; Joseph died May 30, 1868; Lillie
married John LAWHEAD, of Plover, Iowa, and has one child; Myrta
is the wife of Ralph SWAN, of Attica, and the mother of two children;
and Gertrude is living at home.
- Mr. and Mrs. BARTLETT are members of the Methodist Church.
In politics he is a Republican,
- and was roadmaster a number of years. For over fifty years
he has been a resident of this neighborhood.
-
- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin,"
(c)1901 Union Publishing; pp. 431-432.
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- Courtesy of Carol.
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