Charles W. Bartlett (1845-1916) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and died in Newtonville, Massachusetts. As a child he lived in Lee and then Durham, New Hampshire. In 1861, although only sixteen years old, he enlisted in the Union Army in the American Civil War with the consent of his father. He served in Company A of the 5th Massachusetts Militia Regiment. After the war he returned to Durham and worked as a farm and construction laborer to earn funds to attend Dartmouth College, in Hanover, New Hampshire, to which he was admitted in 1865. After graduating he taught high school to earn funds to attend Albany Law School, in Albany, New York. He graduated and was admitted to the New York Bar in 1871.
Bartlett moved to Boston, Massachusetts, around 1878 and entered a legal partnership that, in 1891, became the firm Bartlett & Anderson, which handled some of the most noteworthy civil and criminal cases that arose in Massachusetts during that time. Bartlett was one of the attorneys who successfully represented Mary Baker Eddy in a libel suit brought by Josephine Curtis Woodbury in 1899.
In 1905 Bartlett was appointed judge advocate general of Massachusetts. In 1905 and again in 1907 he was the unsuccessful Democratic nominee for governor of Massachusetts. In 1870 he married Mary L. Bartlett (b. Morrison) in Albany. She died in 1882, and in 1897 he married Annie M. Bartlett (b. White) in Acushnet, Massachusetts. She was the official stenographer for the Suffolk County Superior Court. They moved to Newtonville in 1906. Bartlett was president of the Educational Association of Dartmouth College, vice president of the Board of Trustees of Suffolk Law School, commander of John A. Andrew Post 155 of the Grand Army of the Republic, and a Mason.
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Charles W. Bartlett (1845-1916) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and died in Newtonville, Massachusetts. As a child he lived in Lee and then Durham, New Hampshire. In 1861, although only sixteen years old, he enlisted in the Union Army in the American Civil War with the consent of his father. He served in Company A of the 5th Massachusetts Militia Regiment. After the war he returned to Durham and worked as a farm and construction laborer to earn funds to attend Dartmouth College, in Hanover, New Hampshire, to which he was admitted in 1865. After graduating he taught high school to earn funds to attend Albany Law School, in Albany, New York. He graduated and was admitted to the New York Bar in 1871.
Bartlett moved to Boston, Massachusetts, around 1878 and entered a legal partnership that, in 1891, became the firm Bartlett & Anderson, which handled some of the most noteworthy civil and criminal cases that arose in Massachusetts during that time. Bartlett was one of the attorneys who successfully represented Mary Baker Eddy in a libel suit brought by Josephine Curtis Woodbury in 1899.
In 1905 Bartlett was appointed judge advocate general of Massachusetts. In 1905 and again in 1907 he was the unsuccessful Democratic nominee for governor of Massachusetts. In 1870 he married Mary L. Bartlett (b. Morrison) in Albany. She died in 1882, and in 1897 he married Annie M. Bartlett (b. White) in Acushnet, Massachusetts. She was the official stenographer for the Suffolk County Superior Court. They moved to Newtonville in 1906. Bartlett was president of the Educational Association of Dartmouth College, vice president of the Board of Trustees of Suffolk Law School, commander of John A. Andrew Post 155 of the Grand Army of the Republic, and a Mason.
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