Introduction

Biography

Franklin was the son of Or­rin Da­ni­el Bart­lett and Ma­ry Wes­ton, and hus­band of Ka­tha­rine F. Bart­lett.

He was edu­cat­ed at the Sus­que­han­na Col­le­gi­ate In­sti­tute, To­wan­da, Penn­syl­van­ia; Un­ion Col­lege, Sche­nec­ta­dy, New York (AB 1865, DD 1887); and Will­iams College, Mas­sa­chu­setts (MA 1896).

At Un­ion Col­lege, he was a mem­ber of the Phi­lo­ma­thi­an So­ci­ety, for which he wrote, by ap­point­ment, the ode sung on its 70th an­ni­ver­sa­ry. He ed­it­ed his class’ An­nu­al Bul­le­tin in 1866.

Bartlett be­came a can­di­date for the Epis­co­pal min­is­try in 1865, and be­gan a course of theo­lo­gic­al stu­dy, dur­ing which he taught for a while at the in­sti­tute in To­wan­da.

He gra­du­at­ed from the Ber­ke­ley Di­vi­ni­ty School, Mid­dle­town, Con­nec­ti­cut, in 1869, and in Ju­ly of that year was or­dained to the min­is­try by Bishop Ste­vens of Penn­syl­van­ia.

His first charge was in Al­len­town, Penn­syl­van­ia, to­ge­ther with the mis­sion at Ca­ta­sau­qua. He was as­sist­ant min­is­ter of Tr­in­ity Church, Potts­ville, Penn­syl­van­ia (1871–02), then taught Greek, Latin and Vo­cal Cul­ture at the State Nor­mal School in Blooms­burg, Penn­syl­vania (1872–73).

He again served as as­sist­ant min­is­ter at Tri­ni­ty Church, Potts­ville (1873–74), then as head­mas­ter of a church school for boys at Fox Chase, Phi­la­del­phia, Penn­sy­lvan­ia (1874–76).

In 1877, he be­came rec­tor of St. Ma­ry’s Church, North­field, Ver­mont, where he of­fi­ci­at­ed un­til ear­ly in 1883.

He was ap­point­ed pro­fess­or of Mo­ral and In­tel­lect­ual Phi­lo­so­phy at Nor­wich Uni­ver­si­ty in 1878, where he al­so taught La­tin and Span­ish, and was chap­lain for some years.

At the in­vi­ta­tion of Bi­shop Hunt­ing­ton, Bart­lett went to Sy­ra­cuse in 1883 to do mis­sion work in cen­tral New York. He al­so took charge for some months at a time of Grace Church, and of Tri­ni­ty Church, Sy­ra­cuse, and of Tri­ni­ty Church, Se­ne­ca Falls, New York.

In 1886, he ac­cept­ed a call to St. John’s Church, Wil­liams­town, Mas­sa­chu­setts. Dur­ing this min­is­try, he taught He­brew at Wil­liams Col­lege (1887–94). He al­so took tem­po­ra­ry charge dur­ing the rec­tor’s ab­sence at St. John’s Church, Ban­gor, Maine (1896–97).

He was rec­tor of St. Paul’s Church, Pea­body, Mas­sa­chu­setts (1897–98), which he re­signed on ac­count of illness. A long pe­ri­od of ill health fol­lowed, and he moved to Rock­port, Mas­sa­chu­setts, in 1900.

Bartlett was a mem­ber of the Es­sex In­sti­tute in Sa­lem, Mas­sa­chu­setts, and of the Cape Ann Sci­en­ti­fic and Li­ter­ary As­so­cia­tion, Glou­ces­ter, Mas­sa­chu­setts, and was an as­so­ci­ate mem­ber of the O. W. Wal­lace Post 107 of the Grand Army of the Re­pub­lic in Rock­port. He was al­so an hon­or­ary mem­ber of the North­field Con­ver­sa­tion­al Club.

Bartlett wrote a bio­graph­ic­al sketch of Pro­fessor Alon­zo Jack­man for the Re­veille, and an­oth­er for Hem­en­way’s Ga­zet­teer of Ver­mont. His ser­mon preached in me­mo­ry of Pro­fessor Jack­man was is­sued in pamph­let form.

His hymns ap­peared most­ly in week­ly pe­ri­od­ic­als.