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JACKSON A. BARTLETT – This well known and representative business man of the town
of Drewsey has a fine hotel, where he does a thriving business and also a large
livery and feed stable, being a man of excellent capabilities and one of the prominent
figures in this part of Harney county. He was born in Owen county, Indiana, on August
31, 1847, the son of James and Sarah (Alexander) Bartlett. He was reared on a farm
and gained his education from the public schools of the vicinity and when he heard
the call for troops in the times of fratricidal strife he enlisted in the One Hundred
and Forty-ninth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, Company B. He was largely on post puty,
being in Louisville, Kentucky; Nashville, Tennessee; and Decatur, Alabama. The date
of his enlistment was February 14, 1865, and his honorable discharge occurred in
October, 1865. He at once returned to his home in Indiana. In 1868 he migrated to
Scotland county, Missouri, and there on December 25, 1870, occurred his marriage
with Miss Arminta J., daughter of William and Margaret Myers. He followed farming
there until 1887, and then with his family of wife and seven children he made the
trip across the country to Union county, Oregon. The following year he came to the
agency, in the vicinity of Beulah, Malheur county, entered a homestead, improved
it and settled to raising stock. It was in 1896 that he came to Drewsey and bought
a hotel and embarked in that business. He did a good business from the start, but
in 1899 the entire property was destroyed by fire. He immediately rebuilt a fine
two-story structure, fifty-six feet front and forty-four feet deep. He has a nice
large office, parlors, dining room, kitchen and twenty sleeping apartments. In 1890
he sold his ranch and stock and devoted his entire attention to the hotel and feed
stable.
The following children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Bartlett: Jesse, near Longcreek,
Grant county; James C., who was elected in 1900, on the Democratic ticket, as superintendent
of the schools of Harney county; Mrs. Grace Arnold, of Pine creek; Hattie, Hettie,
Hugh, triplets, Hugh being deceased; Carl and Stella V.
Transcriber’s Note: I’m sure that he was actually on “post duty”, but the
above is transcribed as it was originally printed in the book.
Also, being a direct descendant of this Bartlett family, I see that the writer missed
one child born between Jesse and James “Curtis”, Mrs. Ettie M. Arnold, who was by
that time deceased.
Transcribed from Pages 673-674 of Harney County Biographies from “An
Illustrated History of Baker, Grant, Malheur and Harney Counties with a brief outline
of the early history of the State of Oregon”, Published 1902 by Western Historical
Publishing Company
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