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One of Huntington's active and progressive business men is Bert J. Bartlett,
proprietor of the Bartlett Trucking Company, since its organization in the early nineties.
He has been variously identified with a number of business enterprises in Huntington in
the last twenty years, but his principal success has come to him through the channels of
his present business, which has in recent years reached generous proportions, making
necessary the employment of a good many men and teams. Other activities, it is true,
claim a shore of his time and attention, but the Bartlett Trucking Company is his
principal business interest.
Mr. Bartlett was born in Claremont, New Hampshire, in June, 1869, and is a son of William
P. Bartlett, a prosperous farmer of New Hampshire,of the state of his birth, and where he
died in August, 1913. His wife and the mother of Bert J. Bartlett of this review, was
Martha Ladona S. (Flower) Bartlett, also a native of New Hampshire and now deceased.
As boy and youth in the New Hampshire home of his parents, Bert Bartlett attended the
public schools, and gained such education as they were fitted to afford in those early
days of American education. He remained on the farm until he was twenty, then came west,
to Indiana as reckoned in New Hampshire, and settled in Columbia City. There he became
interested in the lumber business, remaining at that point for six years, at which time he
disposed of his lumber interests and came to Huntington. In this city he formed a
business association with a Mr. Perine, and engaged again in the lumber business under the
firm name of Perine & Bartlett, and at the end of another six years of lumbering
activity, sold out and engaged in the trucking and transfer business. At the same time he
began to operate more or less in coal, and a little later entered the storage field,
erecting a cement block building with a forty by two hundred foot front, the building
being calculated for the stora!
ge of all materials requiring a chilled temperature. The transfer and trucking business,
however, is the branch of his enterprise to which he has given the closest attention, and
he has in that line built up an extensive business, having in his employ a large number of
men and teams.
In addition to the interests already named Mr Bartlett is one of the directors of the
Factory Fund Association, organized on February 22, 1907, at a special meeting called for
the purpose of interesting a number of the leading citizens of the city, and the purpose
of the organization being the raising of a fund to bring to the City of Huntington new
manufacturing enterprises. The capital stock of the Asssociation was placed at $50,000,
all of which was subscribed by leading citizens. This Association has been the direct
means of securing and locating a number of industries of no slight importance, reference
to which will be found elswhere in this work, under the heading "Huntington
Industries". At a special meeting of the Association Mr. Bartlett was chosen
president, with C.B. Williams as vice-president, O.W. Whitelock, secretary and Julius Dick
as treasurer. The organization has for its support a goodly number of the leading
business men of Huntington, and it is not to!
o much to say that it has been the direct cause of the influx of a considerable capital
and a number of desirable men who came in the wake of the new enterprises. Mr. Bartlett
has shown himself in this work especially to be a man of progress and one who looks beyond
the present day and its needs in the administration of any business enterprise. His civic
attitude has throughout been most admirable, and places him among the real men of the
community.
In 1896 Mr. Bartlett was united in marriage with Miss Frances F. Severance, a daughter of
Dr. LaGrange and Henrietta (Drummond) Severance. Two children have been born to them,
Fred L. and Helen E. Bartlett, both of whom are in school.
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