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Below is a family biography included in the Biographical Review Volume of Biographical Sketches of The Leading Citizens of Hampshire County, Massachusetts published by Biographical Review Publishing Company in 1896.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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ELIHU P. BARTLETT, an old resident of Westhampton, was born there, March 19, 1825, son of Elihu and Sarah (Hurlburt) Bartlett, the former a native of Westhampton, the latter of Southampton. The Bartlett family has been well known in the locality since the latter part of the last century, when Mr. Bartlett’s grandfather removed from Northampton to Westhampton. He was then a young man, was many years a resident of the town, and engaged, like his neighbors, in farming.

The elder Elihu Bartlett, father of Elihu P., also engaged in agriculture. He lived in the western part of the town till he was sixty-five years of age, when he went to reside with his son Elihu P. He died December 11, 1866. His wife had passed away nine years before, on October 12, 1857. Their home was brightened by eight children, namely: Mary, deceased; Elihu P., the subject of this sketch; Asaph H., now in Leavenworth, Kan.; Christopher C., who lives near his brother Elihu; Horace C., Diana D., and two daughters named Sarah A., all of whom died some years ago.

Elihu P. Bartlett received a fair education in the schools of Westhampton. Living on the farm he necessarily became familiar with farm work. When twenty years of age he went to work in Westfield for a season, and later was employed in Springfield for a year. In 1848 he rented the farm which he now occupies, and which in course of time he was able to purchase. At first it comprised one hundred and fifty acres. Since then Mr. Bartlett has added to it, and now it is one hundred and eighty acres. He has made a great many improvements, carries on general farming in an intelligent and progressive way, and derives from his bountiful crops an ample income.

On June 14, 1850, Mr. Bartlett was united in marriage with Elsie E. Kingsley, who was born in Westhampton, daughter of Orrin and Emily (Hooker) Kingsley. Orrin Kingsley, who was a farmer in Westhampton, died in Northampton in December, 1876. Mrs. Bartlett died in 1855, and the place left vacant by her decease has never been filled, her husband remaining faithful to her memory. She left two children, Edward A. and Emily H. Edward A. married Emma Jessamine, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and they are the parents of six children, three of whom are living: Elsie K., Ruby B., and Clifford M. He lives with his father, his wife superintending the household. Emily H. is the wife of Henry Warner, of Leeds, Mass. In politics Mr. Bartlett was originally a Whig, and is now a Republican. He has a comfortable home, and the goodly acres which surround it are the recompense of a life of honest and persevering labor.

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This family biography is one of the numerous biographies included in the Biographical Review Volume of Biographical Sketches of The Leading Citizens of Hampshire County, Massachusetts published in 1896. 

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