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Bartlett was born in Salisbury, New Hampshire on July 24, 1786.
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John Russell Bartlett's Dictionary of Americanisms is a fascinating look at the words that actually came out of the mouths of early 19th-century Americans. It's also a window into U. S. history, with tiny essays on early political parties (the Democratic party, for example, was known as the "Loco-foco" after an incident of the kind which won't surprise observers of the political process), economics (how bears and bulls went to Wall Street), and culture (both strong drink and the Millerites); its collection of quotes offers later readers examples from a wide variety of early-19th-century works (everything from Congressional speeches to popular novels). And where else are you going to find discussions of words like "sanctimoniouslyfied" and "absquatulate"? or of phrases like "acknowledge the corn" and "red dog money"? This ebook presents the first edition of Bartlett's Dictionary of Americanisms, published in 1848, with reviews from 1848-1849.
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Bartlett was born in Salisbury, New Hampshire on July 24, 1786.
He received a classical education and graduated from Dartmouth College in Hanover in 1808, the son of Smith and Nancy (Russell) Bartlett.
In 1824 he returned to Providence, where he became a clerk in the drygoods store of his uncle William Russell, then took a position as bookkeeper in a bank, and finally in 1831 was chosen cashier of the Globe Bank. During this period his early love of literature and history manifested itself.
He became a member of the Franklin Society, which was founded to study the natural sciences, was elected to the Rhode Island Historical Society in 1831, and in the same year was instrumental in the founding of the Providence Athen'um. It was through his connection with the Historical Society that his first antiquarian research was performed
In 1834 Professor C. C. Rafn, of the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries of Copenhagen, addressed to the Society certain queries regarding the inscriptions on Dighton Rock, which he hoped to prove were Norse. Bartlett was appointed on a committee to investigate the subject and drew two views of the Rock, with its inscriptions, which are now among the most valuable contributions to this much discussed problem.
In 1836 Bartlett moved to New York, where he engaged in mercantile life, but soon became associated with Charles Welford, a bookseller, under the firm name of Bartlett & Welford. Their business consisted largely of the importing of foreign books, and their rooms became a resort for the leading literary and historical scholars of the city. Bartlett was elected corresponding secretary of the New York Historical Society, which brought him into close touch with its president, Albert Gallatin, with whom he helped to form the American Ethnological Society. He prepared papers to be read before the two societies, aided many scholars, such as E. G. Squier and John L. Stephens, in their historical researches, and began to publish works of his own. His Progress of Ethnology, an account of recent researches throughout the world, appeared in 1847, his Dictionary of Americanisms in 1848, and the Reminiscences of Albert Gallatin in 1849. Of these the Dictionary became the best known, passing through four editions, the last in 1878, and being translated into Dutch and German. In 1850 Bartlett retired from business life and was appointed by President Taylor United States commissioner to run the boundary line between the United States and Mexico, under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, in which duty he was employed nearly three years, until February 1853.
While on this service he made extensive explorations in Texas, New Mexico, Chihuahua, Sonora, California, and the country now known as Arizona, the particulars of which were published in 1854 in two volumes under the title of Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents Connected with the United States and Mexican Boundary Commission. He then returned to Rhode Island, where he was elected secretary of state in 1855, which office he continued to hold by annual election for seventeen years. During this period he not only conducted his office efficiently, especially during the troublesome years of the Civil War, but also arranged and classified the great mass of public papers which had accumulated for two hundred years, and had them bound in ninety-two volumes and twenty-eight portfolios.
Under authority of the General Assembly, he published in ten volumes the Records of the Colony of Rhode Island, 1636-1792, printing in addition to the records many valuable documents from private and institutional collections. He also aided the cause of history in his state by publishing an Index to the Acts, Resolves and Reports of Rhode Island, from 1758 to 1862, in twelve volumes (1856 - 63); Bibliography of Rhode Island (1864); The Literature of the Rebellion (1866); and Memoirs of Rhode Island Officers in the Rebellion (1867). For the last thirty years of his life Bartlett was closely associated with John Carter Brown in the acquisition and care of the noted collection of books which that scholar had formed at Providence. From 1865 to 1882 he published the John Carter Brown Catalogue, a monumental work in four volumes which marked a great advance over all previous attempts to provide a bibliography of early Americana.
ts bibliographical descriptions, historical notes, critical valuations, and reproductions of titles and illustrations made this one of the most indispensable works, even to-day, for the student of early American discovery and history. Bartlett died in Providence on May 28, 1886.
Bartlett is known in the field of lexicography for his Dictionary of Americanisms (1848), a pioneering work that, although supplanted by later dialect studies, is still of value to students of language and remains a valuable contribution to the subject. Later editions were published in 1859, 1860, and 1877.
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He was a member of the Franklin Society, the Rhode Island Historical Society, the Franklin Society and the American Ethnological Society.
He was twice married, first on May 15, 1831, to Eliza Allen Rhodes, by whom he had seven children, and who died November 11, 1853; and second, on November 12, 1863, to Ellen Eddy, who survived him.
