The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-10-09
DEATH OF A PROMINENT CITIZEN.
DR.. Edward H. Bartlett Called To His
Long Home.


DR.. Edward H. Bartlett died at the
residence of his son-in-law, Mr.. James
l.. Pollock, at Oakland, Md, at eight
O'Clock Thursday evening, October the
End, 1913. in the eighty-third year of his
age. While it had been painfully clear
for several years that he was in declin-
ing health, the end was fastened as the
elimination of stroke of paralysis of
more than two weeks duration.
He was a son of George and Caroline
Harper Bartlett, of Matanzas, in the
Island of Cuba, and was born there July
the Sth, 1881. Mr.. George Bartlett,
father of the subject of this mention.
was an extensive coffee and sugar pro-
Queer in Cuba. When eleven years old
young Edward II. Bartlett was sent to
the United States to begin school at
Roxburg, Massachusetts. Subsequently
he entered st. Mary's College, Balti-
more, Md, where diploma of gradua-
ton was conferred upon him in 1850.
After this he matriculated at the med
zeal department of Yale and graduated
there in 1855. Following the last grad
uatiOn he became Assistant Demonstra-
tor of Anatomy in the College of Yale.
In 1857 he was married to Miss Jane
Armstrong of New York, and returned
to the ancestral home in Cuba. Two
children were born of this marriage:
Charles, who died in infancy, and Alice
E.. now Mrs. Rodgers, of Alton, Illinois.
In 1889 the mother of these two children
died.
The subject of this sketch was of
Spanish lineage and tracings of that
heritage were transmitted in his per-
sonaiity. After long term of skilled
practice the pursuit of medicine ceased
to harmonic with the bent of his tenn
permanent and he gradually withdrew
from active practice in the profession.
When, in 1861, war was precipitated
by withdra val of Southern States
from the Union, Dr. Bartlett had re-
turned to the United States, and with
all the ardor of his young manhood he
espoused the Southern side of that I'M
happy strife, and quickly acquired the
rank of staff surgeon in an Arkansas
command of the army. Like the bra
vest and noblest of both armies, when
the issue ended in the arbitrament of
arms at Appomattox, he turned from
the grave of the Lost Cause to an hon
orable and patriotic fidelity to re-uni-
ted country, and for time devoted his
attention to cotton planting in the South.
His first appearance in Oakland was in
1869, but he did not take up his residence
there until 1871. Establishing himself
in Oakland he was soon married to Miss
Harriet Fairall, daughter of the late
Mr.. Richard and Mrs. Sarah Fairall, of
Accident. then in Allegany county, Nd.
From this second union were the follow
ing children: Caroline H.; Edward H.,
who died in early manhood; Hari ct f.,
now Mrs. James l.. Pollock, of Oakland;
Richard F., William H., Gracia NJ, now
Mrs. H. G. limbaugh, of Oakland. and
Helen l.. Bartlett.
DIR. Bartlett was Secretary and Ex-
amlner OF the public schools of Garrett
county for a number of terms and after
a retirement of few years was again
reappointed, and his acknowledged quail
ifications and pre-eminent fitness
brought to that important trust an
ability and thoroughness unsurpassed
in any educational department of the
State.
DR.. Bartlett was commissioned by
President Cleveland postmaster of Oak
land and he continued to fill that office
to the close of its term in the Harrison
administration.
In politics, DR.. Bartlett was, from an
enlightened conviction, an uncompromis-
ing Democrat, and was often called on to
represent his party upon the political
hustings. Being an enthusiastic admi-
rer of Mr.. Bryan, the eloquent Com
moner of the West, when this gifted
chief first championed the Nation for
the presidency, the Doctor put on white
cravat, emblematic of the stainless
leader he followed, with the VOW never
to cease wearing that color until Mr..
Bryan became president. Three times
Mr.. Bryan went down in a National de-
feat, but the Doctor was true to his
vow and wore the white cravat to the
last of his life. DR.. Bartlett was A
gentleman. With his high intellectual
requirements enriched by an exceptional
familiarity with the classics, he was
not only conversationalist of entranc-
ing charms but writer of fluent flow
and graceful diction. He was life-l long
member of the Protestant Episcopal
church, deeply grounded in a clear
knowledge of its canons and traditions,
coming down to HIM from the saints.
In clear. tranquil autumnal after
noon of the Lords Day, October the
9Th, 1913, there was an overflow out
pouring of every class and creed who
knew him and loved him, with bowed
heads and moistened eyes. packed in and
about the little church DIR. Bartlett had
contributed so largely to erect and main
tain, listening to an impressive render
ing of the matchless ritual time honored
and beautiful, for the burial of the dead
of the Protestant Episcopal church, by
the Rector, the Rev. Mr.. Shearer. At
the conclusion of the services in the
church, the Masonic Order, in bright
regalia and with imposinp drill hora tho