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BARTLETT, J. W. - Of the firm of Mitchell, Bartlett & Crain, wholesale druggists, was born in Ohio, February 19, 1846, and when five years of age emigrated with his parents to Clarke county, Iowa, and there he was raised and educated. He was engaged in clerking until 1864, when he enlisted in company H, Forty-sixth Iowa infantry and served four months, then being honorably discharged. He removed to Winterset and engaged in the drug business, continuing it one year, when he read law with John Leonard, Esq., and in the fall of 1868 was admitted to the bar. Was then employed as a book-keeper and assistant cashier, and in the spring of 1874 be came to this city and went into the National State Bank, and, one year later, into the Valley Bank. He was married in Winterset to Miss Josephine Philbrick. They have three children living: Frederick W., Byram L. and an infant. Have lost two: Edith M. and Harry.