My Genealogy Hound

NATHANIEL BARTLETT, a native of Boston, Mass., was born August 8, 1809, and is a son of Capt. William and Elizabeth (Trash) Bartlett, natives, respectively, of Wales and Salem, Mass. Capt. William Bartlett was an old sea captain, sailing from Boston to the West Indies and China; he died about 1818. Nathaniel Bartlett immigrated to Cincinnati, Ohio, when eight years of age, crossing the mountains in a wagon, and proceeding down the river in a skiff. He was educated in the private schools of Cincinnati, and in 1831 engaged in the wholesale liquor business on Main Street, Cincinnati, where he was engaged until 1850. In 1867 he removed to Covington, Ky., where he has lived a retired life, owning considerable property in both Cincinnati and Covington. In 1835 he married Miss Eliza Ward, a native of Cincinnati and a daughter of James Ward; she died in 1873, leaving five children, viz.: Nat. P. Bartlett, Mrs. Maria Morton (of Avondale), Mrs. Alice Smith, Mrs. Rosa Miller and Mrs. Carrie Tranter. Mr. Bartlett is a member of the Swedenborgian Church, and until the administration of President Cleveland he was a Republican, now siding with the Democrats. In 1840 he joined the Lafayette Lodge of Free Masons. [See sketch of James H. Miller.]