CHARLES GRISWOLD BARTLETT,
the principal and proprietor of the Black Hall School, established
by him twenty-two years ago, was born in the town of Old Lyme on Christmas
Day, 1848, son of Shubael Fitch and Fannie (Griswold) Bartlett. He belongs
to the ninth generation descended from Robert Bartlett, who came from England
on the "Ann" in 1623, and who married Mary Warren. In Mr. Bartlett's ancestry
there are in all seven "Mayflower" ancestors. The male line of descent
in the Bartlett family from Robert is as follows: Benjamin, Ichabod, Josiah,
Ichabod, John, Shubael, Shubael, and Charles.
The first Shubael Bartlett, who was born
in 1779, married Fannie Leffingwell, of Norwich, a descendant of Lieutenant
Thomas Leffingwell, well known in the Colonial history of this country.
In this family were nine children, all of whom had families excepting one
son, Henry. Grandfather Bartlett died at the age of seventy-five, and his
widow, at the age of eighty-four. Both are buried at East Windsor. Shubael
Bartlett, Jr., was born in East Windsor in 1811. He was a Yale graduate,
class of 1833, and was well known all through this section as Dr. Bartlett.
His wife, Fannie, whom he married on September 1, 1842, was born in New
London in March, 1822. She bore him three children, one of whom, a daughter,
died in infancy. The remaining two are: Charles G. Bartlett; and Mrs. Adaline
Bartlett Allyn, now residing with her brother.
Mr. Bartlett prepared for college at the
Hartford High School, and entered Yale, class of 1872. He did not graduate
with his class, but in 1888 the college conferred upon him the honorary
degree of Master of Arts. He has become widely known as an educator and
as the successful principal of a private school. His institution is so
popular that students come to it from nearly every State in the Union.
He has about forty boys, to whom he gives full preparation for collegiate
courses. The fine estate on which the school building is now located was
formerly the property of Captain George Moore. Since buying it, Mr. Bartlett
has enlarged it, made many improvements, and arranged it so as to make
it most admirably adapted to his work and to the growing needs of his school.
It has a most desirable situation on Long Island Sound and on the Connecticut
River, and, in respect to sanitary arrangements and in the facilities it
offers to students, is unrivalled.
On October 3, 1871, Mr. Bartlett married
Anna Pierson Terry, of Hartford, daughter of Roderick Terry. Mrs. Bartlett
died February 9, 1896, at the age of forty-six years. Their children are:
Henriette Collins, who was educated at Orange, N.J., and at Waterbury;
Charles Griswold Bartlett, Jr., a student in Yale University, class of
1899; Sarah Pierson, now at school in Brooklyn, L. I.; Frank Trowbridge,
deceased; and Harold Terry, ten years old, who is a pupil in his father's
school. On July 6, 1897, a second marriage united Mr. Bartlett with Miss
Harriet Butler Banning, of Old Lyme. In politics he is a conservative Republican,
in religious faith an Episcopalian.
Biographical Review Volume
XXVI
Containing Life Sketches of Leading Citizens
of New London County Connecticut
Boston
Biographical Review Publishing Company
1898
pgs 165 - 166
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