death_date birth_place birth_date birthname article_title
1860 haverhill , massachusetts 1779 enoch bartlett enoch bartlett

enoch bartlett

enoch bartlett -lrb- 1779 -- 1860 -rrb- was a merchant and farmer from dorchester , massachusetts , who owned what had been thomas brewer 's farm in roxbury .
this farm had a field of pear trees , one of which had particularly fine fruit .
because it was thought to be a seedling tree , it became known by the name `` bartlett pear '' , but in 1828 a new batch of pear trees arrived from england , and it was realised that the bartlett pear was the same as the williams pear .
by this time the name `` bartlett pear '' had stuck , and is still the commonest name for this type of pear in canada and the united states .
