William Francis BARTLETT

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6 June 1840 , Haverhill, Massachusetts, USA

Died

17 December 1876 , Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA

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Born: 6 June 1840 in Haverhill, Massachusetts, USA

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William Francis was a soldier in the U.S. Civil War.
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William Francis married Mary Agnes POMEROY 14 October 1865 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA . Mary Agnes POMEROY was born 18 June 1841 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA (Coltsville). Mary Agnes died 16 February 1909 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA (Coltsville).

William Francis BARTLETT died 17 December 1876 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA .

Son of Charles Leonard Bartlett b: 15 AUG 1802 in Haverhill, Essex, MA
and Harriett Dorothy Plummer b: ABT 1820 in of Haverhill, Essex, MA

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William Francis BARTLETT married

Mary Agnes POMEROY
Marriage date: 14 October 1865
Marriage place: Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA

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Agnes Bartlett Francis (1866 - 1938)

Carolyn Bartlett Kidd (1869 - 1944)

Edwin B. Bartlett (1871 - 1913)

Robert Pomeroy Bartlett (1874 - 1903)

Edith Bartlett (1876 - 1959)

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Birth — 1840
6 June 1840
Haverhill, Massachusetts, USA

1841 - William Henry Harrison becomes President of the United States

1841 - John Tyler becomes President of the United States

1843 - The Christmas card is invented (Sir Henry Cole and John Callcott Horsley, England)

Artificial Freezer Patented (Nancy M. Johnson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

1845 - The rubber band is invented (Stephen Perry, England)

The refrigerator is invented (John Gorrie, United States)

1845 - James Knox Polk becomes President of the United States

1849 - The safety pin is invented (Walter Hunt, United States)

1849 - Zachary Taylor becomes President of the United States

1850 - Millard Fillmore becomes President of the United States

1853 - Franklin Pierce becomes President of the United States

1857 - Toilet paper is invented (Joseph Gayetty, United States)

1857 - James Buchanan becomes President of the United States

1857 - March 6 – Dred Scott v. Sandford: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that Blacks are not citizens and slaves can not sue for freedom, driving the country further towards the American Civil War.

1858 - March 30 - H. L. Lipman, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, patented the first pencil with eraser

1861 - February 8 – American Civil War: The Confederate States of America are formed, comprising the first six break-away states.

1861 - Abraham Lincoln becomes President of the United States

Biography

Attended Harvard University
Enlisted in the army for the Civil War
Captain of Company I 20th Massachusetts Infantry, known as 'Harvard Regiment'
He lost a leg at Yorktown in the spring of 1862.

1863 - January 1 - President Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, freeing slaves.

1863 - October 3 – President Lincoln proclaims a national Thanksgiving day to be celebrated the final Thursday in November in the United States

1863 - November 19 – American Civil War: U. S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the military cemetery dedication ceremony in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

1864 - Pasteurization is invented (Louis Pasteur, France)

1865 Marriage / Partner
William Francis BARTLETT and Mary Agnes POMEROY 14 October 1865, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA (Coltsville)

He was 25 years old.

April 14, 1865 - President Abraham Lincoln was mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth at in Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. He died the next day. Andrew Johnson becomes President of the United States.

1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)

Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

1869 - Ulysses S. Grant becomes President of the United States

1870 - June 26 - Christmas becomes a Federal holiday in the United States. It was still illegal in some states.