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John Russell Bartlett (Providence, Rhode Island, cashier, merchant, United States Commissioner, and Secretary of State of Rhode Island)

b. 1805-10-23 d. 1886-05-28

Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, cashier, merchant, United States Commissioner, and Secretary of State of Rhode Island. Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, native. Son of Smith Bartlett and Nancy Russell Bartlett. Married to Eliza Allen Rhodes in Rhode Island on May 15, 1831. Father of Elizabeth Dorrance Bartlett, Anna Russell Bartlett, Henry Anthony Bartlett, George Francis Bartlett, John Russell Bartlett, Leila Bartlett, and Fanny Osgood Bartlett. Married to Ellen Eddy Bartlett in New York City, New York County, New York, on November 12, 1863. Cashier of the Globe Bank in Providence from 1831 to 1837. Merchant in New York City from 1837 to 1849. Resident of Kent County, Rhode Island, in 1850. United States Commissioner from 1850 to 1853. Secretary of State of Rhode Island from 1855 until 1872. Resident of Providence in 1860.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Rhode Island, Kent County, Warwick, p. 113A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Rhode Island, Providence County, Providence Ward 2, p. 39B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Rhode Island, Providence County, Providence Ward 2, p. 260A.

Rhode Island, U.S. Vital Extracts, 1636-1850, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, Volume 10: Town and Church Records: Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths, p. 199.

John Russell Bartlett, Genealogy of that Branch of the Russell Family Which Comprises the Descendants of John Russell, of Woburn, Massachusetts, 1640-1878 (Providence, RI: Providence Press Company, 1879), 129-135.

William Gammell, Life and Services of the Hon. John Russell Bartlett: A Paper Read before the Rhode Island Historical Society (Providence, RI: The Providence Press Company, 1886), 3-20.

"John Russell Bartlett (1805-1886)," Find A Grave, Memorial 62619806, accessed January 18, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/62619806.

Citation

Bartlett, John Russell. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32211562 (November 12, 2026).

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