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was born October 27, 1739, in Stafford,
Connecticut. He married Rachel John-
son.
(VI) Cyrus Bartlett, son of Samuel (2)
and Rachel (Johnson) Bartlett, was born
in Stafford, Connecticut, January 23, 1778.
He was a farmer and removed to Belchertown
and there bought a cold spring,
which was noted even among the Indians
for the coldness and purity of its waters.
The original name of Belchertown, Massachusetts,
was Cold Spring, derived from
this spring, and the farm named from it,
Cold Spring Farm, was in possession of
the Bartlett family up to 1900.
(VII) Cyrus Sabin Bartlett, son of Cyrus
Bartlett, was born in Stafford, Connecticut,
May 16, 1814. He was a young
lad when his parents removed to Belch-
ertown, Massachusetts. Cyrus Bartlett
married Emily Stebbins.
(VIII) Addison Homer Bartlett, son
of Cyrus Sabin and Emily (Stebbins)
Bartlett, was born February 15, 1843, m
Belchertown, Massachusetts. There he
grew to manhood and still makes his
home. He was educated in the public
schools and the Wilbraham Academy,
and for a time followed the vocation of
teacher. He became associated with his
father in the running of the home farm,
and after the death of the later succeeded
him in the ownership. He continued to
carry on the work of the farm for several
years, until his retirement from active
cares, since which time he has made his
home in the village. Mr. Bartlett and his
family attend the Congregational church,
of which he has long been deacon and one
of its most ardent workers. His charities
are many; he is ever ready to listen and
aid any one who is unfortunate and deserving
of assistance. Mr. Bartlett mar-
ried Violet Isabelle Bardwell, of Belcher-
town, and of their seven children five
grew to maturity. Their children are:
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Lizzie Maria, wife of Thomas Allen, of
Belchertown, and mother of Francis Samuel
Allen; Marion Estella, lives at home;
Alice Isabella, deceased ; Henry Addison,
deceased ;
Dwight Stebbins, married Ma-
bel Smith and has three children, Alice,
Ralph and Ruth Bartlett; they reside in
Springfield, Massachusetts ; Francis A.
Edward Payson, dean of Pomona College,
Claremont, California.
(IX) Francis Alonzo Bartlett, son of
Addison Homer and Violet I. (Bardwell)
Bartlett, was born November 13, 1882, in
Belchertown, Massachusetts. He graduated
from the high school of that town
in 1900, and five years later from the
Massachusetts Agricultural College in
Amherst with the degree of B. S. Mr.
Bartlett became interested in horticulture
while still a student at college, and for
two years subsequent to his graduation
he was Horticultural Instructor in Hampton
Institute, Hampton, Virginia. Each
succeeding year deepened his interest and
his study. From 1905 to 1907 he followed
his profession in White Plains, and in the
latter year removed to Stamford, Connec-
ticut, where he purchased a farm to en-
gage in experimental work with trees.
In 1916 he incorporated the F. A. Bart-
lett Company, of which he is president
and treasurer, and the progress the company
has made in its specialty, tree sur-
gery, is shown by the fact that there is
but one other concern in the United
States transacting an equal volume of
business. The main office is in Stamford,
with branches in Westbury, Long Island,
Morristown, New Jersey, and Philadel-
phia, Pennsylvania, with an average of
seventy men employed.
For a long time Mr. Bartlett devoted
his efforts toward experiments in the pro-
duction of a filler for use in tree surgery
that would more nearly partake of the
nature of the tree itself. This he found in
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