Chicago Adolphus C. Bartlett

the adolphus clay bartlett home. 2720 prairie avenue, chicago, illinois

the son of sawmill operator turned school teacher, bartlett child , learned appreciate prosperity grew older. married mary pitkin on august 27, 1867, had 4 children, maie bartlett heard, frederic clay bartlett, frank dickinson bartlett, , florence dibell bartlett. family set home @ 2720 prairie avenue in chicago.

bartlett s wife died in 1890, remarried in june 1893 abbey little hitchcock of toledo, ohio. had 1 child, eleanor collamore bartlett. hitchcock, born in 1862, eighteen years younger husband , 1885 graduate of university of michigan. died in 1938 @ age of 75 in paris, france. bartlett , both of wives interred in oak woods cemetery, chicago. during marriage abbey, bartlett have howard van doren shaw secretly construct summer home in lake geneva, wisconsin. home known house in woods, construction begin in 1905 , completed in 1909. june 1909 ladies home journal featured house , called 1 of beautiful country houses in nation.

eleanor bartlett, portrait photograph

bartlett s children demonstrated success in lives, maie marry dwight b. heard on august 10, 1893. next year couple move phoenix, arizona , begin collect native american artifacts. found heard museum in 1929 in order house personal collection of art. of archaeological material in heards collection came la ciudad indian ruin, purchased in 1926. frederic attended preparatory schools such st. paul’s in concord, new hampshire, , harvard school boys in chicago, however; chose not go college. instead, @ age of nineteen, left chicago study art in europe. chicago’s world’s columbian exposition of 1893 major inspiration move. in 1894, became among few americans admitted royal academy in munich. eventually, frederic amass collection of post-impressionist , modernist paintings exhibited within several galleries. florence dibell bartlett found museum of international folk art in santa fe, new mexico , eleanor collamore bartlett marry mobile alabama physician, dr. william perdue on september 5, 1916.

tragically, frank dickinson bartlett die of appendicitis while traveling in munich, bavaria, july 15, 1900, @ age of twenty. memorial son, adolphus construct gymnasium on campus of university of chicago, completed in 1904. frank have graduated harvard university in 1902, while preparing college @ douglas , manuel training schools in chicago , @ stone s school in boston.