Bartlett-Jackson family papers, 1832-1966.
(Mixed Material)

I. French & Bradford family papers; II. Materials relating to Josiah Bartlett & George Bradford Bartlett; III. A.W. Jackson & Caroline Bradford Bigelow Jackson papers; IV. Misc. Jackson family papers; V. William Bradford Bartlett & Ruth Jackson Bartlett papers; VI. Edward Jackson Bartlett papers; VII. Materials of uncertain provenance.

Papers, 1832-1966, of or relating primarily to: 4 generations of Bartletts (Dr. Josiah; Edward Jarvis; William Bradford; Edward Jackson); A.W. Jackson, wife Caroline Bradford Bigelow Jackson, daughter Ruth Jackson Bartlett; various other members of Jackson family. Also incl. items relating to French & Bradford families. Among other items, papers incl. Fanny French autograph book, Bradford genealogical chart, letters from A.W. Jackson to wife, A.W. Jackson mss. (primarily on 19th century American authors).

(Cont.) photos., scrapbooks, William Bradford Bartlett photo. & postcard album (1907-1908), poems (by various writers) from papers of Ruth J. Bartlett, school compositions, letters, and signaling notebook of Edward Jackson Bartlett, & one v. of Silas Herbert Holden's Ornithological Notes (ms. journal).

Bartlett family papers, 1816-1972;,Concord Free Public Library, Special Collections.

Annie Keyes Bartlett letters to Edward Jarvis Bartlett, 1860-1865;,Concord Free Public Library, Special Collections.

Additional Silas Herbert Holden ornithological journals;,Silas Herbert Holden papers, 1873-1905;,Concord Free Public Library, Special Collections.

Two families of Concord, Mass. Dr. Josiah Bartlett (Concord physician) & Martha Tilden Bradford of Waltham announced intent to marry, Nov. 1821. Their children: Martha (b. 1824); Gorham (1826); James Walker (1828); Elizabeth B. (1830); author George Bradford (1832); Samuel Ripley (1837); Annie Keyes (1840); Edward Jarvis (1842); & (David) Bradford. Dr. Josiah's son Edward Jarvis ("Ned") served in Civil War, returned to Concord, m. Sarah Flagg French in 1873; d. 1914.

(Cont.) Edward Jarvis Bartlett's son William Bradford (1880-1960), medical director of John Hancock Life Insurance Co., 1923-1946, resident of Hartford, Conn., and Concord, m. Ruth Jackson. Ruth Jackson was daughter of Abraham Willard Jackson & Caroline Bradford Bigelow Jackson. A.W. Jackson (1843-1911), native of Me. & Graduate of Colby College and Harvard Divinity School, was Unitarian minister (incl. parishes in Peterboro, N.H., & Santa Barbara, Calif.), teacher at Meadville Theological School.

(Cont.) author of The Immanent God & Deafness and Cheerfulness & of pieces on religion, philosophy, & other topics, Civil War veteran, & for a time a resident of Concord. Wife Caroline Bradford Bigelow Jackson was b. in Livemore, Me., 1872, d. in 1935. Edward Jackson Bartlett, son of William Bradford Bartlett & Ruth Jackson Bartlett was b. 1915 in Hartford. Resident of Concord & later of Carlisle, he m. Joan Motley (1921-1992), worked as cabinetmaker in Concord, d. 1994.

Finding aid in Library.

Accession;,AMC 024;,1998 Aug. 21