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Capt Amos Bartlett

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Capt Amos Bartlett Veteran

Birth
Webster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
30 Nov 1912 (aged 76)
Webster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial
Webster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA GPS-Latitude: 42.0645282, Longitude: -71.8669346
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From The Webster Times, 5 Dec 1912, in part:

"Capt. Amos Bartlett, a native and life long resident of Webster, for many years prominently connected with the S. Slater & Sons Inc. manufacturing interest, acting as agent and general manager, and later as one of the trustees, died at his home at the junction of East, South and North Main streets, last Saturday night at ten o'clock. The immediate cause of death was heart failure, following a protracted period of general debility. He had been confined to the house about two weeks. Mrs. Bartlett and the three children, Spaulding, Lucia and Sidney, were present when he passed away. Capt. Bartlett was born in Webster in 1836, son of Asa and Matilda (Kingsbury) Bartlett, and if he had lived until the 9th day of next May he would have attained his 77th birthday.

On Oct. 14, 1863 Capt. Bartlett married Miss Emma Spaulding, daughter of Erastus and Lucy (Locke) Spaulding, and sister of the late Cyrus Spaulding, who with his father Erastus for a number of years conducted the leading hardware store in this vicinity, and who were prominent members and supporters of the Webster Methodist and Episcopal church.

Capt. Bartlett went to work at the age of nine years. His father was employed at the age of ten, and his grandfather, Zephaniah, as a blacksmith at Wilsonville, sharpened the drills made in building the first card room in this vicinity. Capt. Bartlett's education was obtained as a student in the district schools, and later he was a student at Nichols and Wilbraham Academies.

In 1859 Capt. Bartlett worked with Henry Bugbee making shoes. The same year they both went to St. Louis, and returned by Harper's Ferry, where John Brown made his famous raid.

.... Capt Bartlett's first position as a school teacher was in connection with the Gore school. He walked to and from school each day and in the winter time attended to his own fires. When the snow was deep during those old fashioned New England winters the daily journey was a hard one and sometimes accompanied by severe exposure and peril.

He afterwards taught in the old Webster high school building, located near the corner of East Main and Slater Streets. From this position he went to the front in '61, his prompt decision necessitating the hiring of another teacher to fill out a school term.

... he heard the call of duty to go forth in the defense of his country and flag. He had been an earnest student, an earnest instructor, and these same characteristics made him a loyal patriotic and faithful soldier. From the ranks he soon was taken, and by steps attained the title of Captain, which he bore with dignity, reflecting credit upon his superior officers, and always retaining the respect of those in his command.

From official sources we copy Capt. Bartlett's war record as follows:
Born May 9th, 1836 in Webster;
enlisted April 20, 1861 as private in Co. I, Fifteenth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry;
was promoted to second lieutenant Aug. 1st, 1861;
first lieutenant Aug. 5th, 1861;
captain May 31st, 1862;
and resigned by reason of disability, Jan. 7th, 1863, Engagements, Ball's Bluff, Siege of Yorktown, West Point, Fair Oak's, Savage Station, Glendale, Malvern Hill, Second Bull Run, South Mountain, Antietam, wounded at Antietam: in hospital for two weeks at Georgetown, and discharged for disability , Jan. 7th, 1863. Intimate comrades, Gen Charles Devens General George H. Ward, Gen. J. W. Kimball.

After the Civil War, and previous to making his permanent home in Webster, Capt. Bartlett was for a time located in Rockville, Warehouse Point, Conn. and in 1870 was in Mapleville R. I. where he was superintendent of a mill.

....He was a vestryman in the Church of the Reconciliation (Episcopal), was a past commander of the Nathaniel Lyon Post 61, G. A. R. and was noted for his kind acts and general benevolence. ... The clock and chimes on the high school building was a present to the town from Capt. Bartlett in honor of his father Asa Bartlett.

For nearly one hundred years the family name had been on S. Slater & Sons payroll. ... Zephania Bartlett started in contributing the first building of the Slater's. Asa Bartlett was for about 50 years a boss carder. Capt. Bartlett followed by assisting his father in the card room and later went into the book keeping and executive department and finally Spaulding Bartlett in various capacities as superintendent. This is a continuity of family service that is most remarkable and in all probability cannot be surpassed in this community.

Capt Bartlett signed his resignation from all connections with S. Slater & Sons Inc. on April 1st, 1911, to take effect the following May 9th, which was his 75th birthday. for some time previous he had planned on such a decision and when the time arrived carried out his former intentions to the letter.

In the death of Capt. Bartlett this community has lost one of its foremost citizens. The family name, Bartlett, has been for more than half a century been identified and is synonymous with that which has pertained to manufacturing, educational and ethical progress in this community. The head has been taken by death, and the family and immediate relatives are only a small portion of those of whom may be classed as mourners....

Funeral services were held at the Church of the Reconciliation(Episcopal),... Out of town people present were ..., members of the 15th Massachusetts Regiment association were present at the service Capt. Bartlett was a former president of the association.

The burial of Capt Amos Bartlett on Tuesday was doubtless what it was intended, it should be the burial of a chieftan by the Slater clan. Pomp and panoply could never produce the same feeling of deep, devout appreciation of the fact that the departed was a man in the community as did the march of the eight clansmen with their chieftan on their shoulders through the door of the church, through the nave to the chancel, where he was rested until the ritual of the church had been read, when the casket was again raised to the shoulders of those eight clansmen, reverently turned right about in the chancel, carried down the aisle and placed in the hearse which was to carry the gallant captain to his last resting place, where the committed ceremony of the Episcopal church was to be read, where some of the survivors of Company I, Fifteenth Massachusetts and other fellow soldiers paid military tribute. Where the Commander draped the little "Old Glory" on the lid of the coffin and one of the Sons of Veterans sounded "Light Out."

Members of Post 61 G. A. R. were conveyed by special electric car. The burial committal service was read by Rev. Walcott S. W. Linsley, and "Taps" sounded by Bugler Everett Grey.... There was a profusion of floral offerings,... The Polish Cornet band volunteered their services, and at the cemetery rendered "Onward Christian soldiers" "Lead Kindly Light" and "Adeste Fideles"

Mills at the South, North, and East Villages were closed during the afternoon, the public schools were closed and business was generally suspended during the funeral services.

Capt Bartlett is survived by his wife and three children; Spaulding, Superintendent of the American Felt Co. Cambridge Mass, Sidney K., and Miss Lucia H. Bartlett, and a brother Edwin Bartlett of North Oxford; five grandchildren, George Hodges, Asa, Samuel Slater, Henry Craigen and Lucy Locke Bartlett, children of Mr. and Mrs. Spaulding Bartlett."
From The Webster Times, 5 Dec 1912, in part:

"Capt. Amos Bartlett, a native and life long resident of Webster, for many years prominently connected with the S. Slater & Sons Inc. manufacturing interest, acting as agent and general manager, and later as one of the trustees, died at his home at the junction of East, South and North Main streets, last Saturday night at ten o'clock. The immediate cause of death was heart failure, following a protracted period of general debility. He had been confined to the house about two weeks. Mrs. Bartlett and the three children, Spaulding, Lucia and Sidney, were present when he passed away. Capt. Bartlett was born in Webster in 1836, son of Asa and Matilda (Kingsbury) Bartlett, and if he had lived until the 9th day of next May he would have attained his 77th birthday.

On Oct. 14, 1863 Capt. Bartlett married Miss Emma Spaulding, daughter of Erastus and Lucy (Locke) Spaulding, and sister of the late Cyrus Spaulding, who with his father Erastus for a number of years conducted the leading hardware store in this vicinity, and who were prominent members and supporters of the Webster Methodist and Episcopal church.

Capt. Bartlett went to work at the age of nine years. His father was employed at the age of ten, and his grandfather, Zephaniah, as a blacksmith at Wilsonville, sharpened the drills made in building the first card room in this vicinity. Capt. Bartlett's education was obtained as a student in the district schools, and later he was a student at Nichols and Wilbraham Academies.

In 1859 Capt. Bartlett worked with Henry Bugbee making shoes. The same year they both went to St. Louis, and returned by Harper's Ferry, where John Brown made his famous raid.

.... Capt Bartlett's first position as a school teacher was in connection with the Gore school. He walked to and from school each day and in the winter time attended to his own fires. When the snow was deep during those old fashioned New England winters the daily journey was a hard one and sometimes accompanied by severe exposure and peril.

He afterwards taught in the old Webster high school building, located near the corner of East Main and Slater Streets. From this position he went to the front in '61, his prompt decision necessitating the hiring of another teacher to fill out a school term.

... he heard the call of duty to go forth in the defense of his country and flag. He had been an earnest student, an earnest instructor, and these same characteristics made him a loyal patriotic and faithful soldier. From the ranks he soon was taken, and by steps attained the title of Captain, which he bore with dignity, reflecting credit upon his superior officers, and always retaining the respect of those in his command.

From official sources we copy Capt. Bartlett's war record as follows:
Born May 9th, 1836 in Webster;
enlisted April 20, 1861 as private in Co. I, Fifteenth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry;
was promoted to second lieutenant Aug. 1st, 1861;
first lieutenant Aug. 5th, 1861;
captain May 31st, 1862;
and resigned by reason of disability, Jan. 7th, 1863, Engagements, Ball's Bluff, Siege of Yorktown, West Point, Fair Oak's, Savage Station, Glendale, Malvern Hill, Second Bull Run, South Mountain, Antietam, wounded at Antietam: in hospital for two weeks at Georgetown, and discharged for disability , Jan. 7th, 1863. Intimate comrades, Gen Charles Devens General George H. Ward, Gen. J. W. Kimball.

After the Civil War, and previous to making his permanent home in Webster, Capt. Bartlett was for a time located in Rockville, Warehouse Point, Conn. and in 1870 was in Mapleville R. I. where he was superintendent of a mill.

....He was a vestryman in the Church of the Reconciliation (Episcopal), was a past commander of the Nathaniel Lyon Post 61, G. A. R. and was noted for his kind acts and general benevolence. ... The clock and chimes on the high school building was a present to the town from Capt. Bartlett in honor of his father Asa Bartlett.

For nearly one hundred years the family name had been on S. Slater & Sons payroll. ... Zephania Bartlett started in contributing the first building of the Slater's. Asa Bartlett was for about 50 years a boss carder. Capt. Bartlett followed by assisting his father in the card room and later went into the book keeping and executive department and finally Spaulding Bartlett in various capacities as superintendent. This is a continuity of family service that is most remarkable and in all probability cannot be surpassed in this community.

Capt Bartlett signed his resignation from all connections with S. Slater & Sons Inc. on April 1st, 1911, to take effect the following May 9th, which was his 75th birthday. for some time previous he had planned on such a decision and when the time arrived carried out his former intentions to the letter.

In the death of Capt. Bartlett this community has lost one of its foremost citizens. The family name, Bartlett, has been for more than half a century been identified and is synonymous with that which has pertained to manufacturing, educational and ethical progress in this community. The head has been taken by death, and the family and immediate relatives are only a small portion of those of whom may be classed as mourners....

Funeral services were held at the Church of the Reconciliation(Episcopal),... Out of town people present were ..., members of the 15th Massachusetts Regiment association were present at the service Capt. Bartlett was a former president of the association.

The burial of Capt Amos Bartlett on Tuesday was doubtless what it was intended, it should be the burial of a chieftan by the Slater clan. Pomp and panoply could never produce the same feeling of deep, devout appreciation of the fact that the departed was a man in the community as did the march of the eight clansmen with their chieftan on their shoulders through the door of the church, through the nave to the chancel, where he was rested until the ritual of the church had been read, when the casket was again raised to the shoulders of those eight clansmen, reverently turned right about in the chancel, carried down the aisle and placed in the hearse which was to carry the gallant captain to his last resting place, where the committed ceremony of the Episcopal church was to be read, where some of the survivors of Company I, Fifteenth Massachusetts and other fellow soldiers paid military tribute. Where the Commander draped the little "Old Glory" on the lid of the coffin and one of the Sons of Veterans sounded "Light Out."

Members of Post 61 G. A. R. were conveyed by special electric car. The burial committal service was read by Rev. Walcott S. W. Linsley, and "Taps" sounded by Bugler Everett Grey.... There was a profusion of floral offerings,... The Polish Cornet band volunteered their services, and at the cemetery rendered "Onward Christian soldiers" "Lead Kindly Light" and "Adeste Fideles"

Mills at the South, North, and East Villages were closed during the afternoon, the public schools were closed and business was generally suspended during the funeral services.

Capt Bartlett is survived by his wife and three children; Spaulding, Superintendent of the American Felt Co. Cambridge Mass, Sidney K., and Miss Lucia H. Bartlett, and a brother Edwin Bartlett of North Oxford; five grandchildren, George Hodges, Asa, Samuel Slater, Henry Craigen and Lucy Locke Bartlett, children of Mr. and Mrs. Spaulding Bartlett."


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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/94941192/amos-bartlett: accessed ), memorial page for Capt Amos Bartlett (9 May 1836–30 Nov 1912), Find a Grave Memorial ID 94941192, citing Mount Zion Cemetery, Webster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA; Maintained by DaurRegt (contributor 47891223).