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词条 John Russell Bartlett
释义

  1. Biography

  2. Family

  3. Note

  4. Selected works

  5. References

  6. External links

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}}John Russell Bartlett (October 23, 1805 – May 28, 1886) was an American historian and linguist.[1]

Biography

Bartlett was born in Providence, Rhode Island on October 23, 1805. In 1819 he was a student at the Lowville Academy in Lowville, New York, which he attended for two years. From 1807 to 1824 he lived in Kingston, Canada. From 1824 to 1836 he lived in Providence where he worked first as a clerk in his uncle's dry goods store (1824-1828), then as a bookkeeper and acting teller at the Bank of North America (1828-1831), and finally as the first cashier of the Globe Bank (1831-1836).

In 1831, he was one of the founders of the Providence Athenaeum, and was elected its first treasurer. That year he was also elected to membership in the Rhode Island Historical Society. The following year he was ordering books for the newly founded Providence Franklin Society, an early lyceum.[2] Over the course of his life he became involved with a number of other organizations including the New England Historic Genealogical Society,[3] and being elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1856.[4]

Bartlett moved to New York City in 1836, where he became a partner in the dry goods commission house of Jesup, Swift and Company. In 1840 he and his friend Charles Welford started the bookselling and publishing firm of Bartlett and Welford which was located in the Astor House hotel on the west side of Broadway between Vesey and Barclay streets. The firm, which was known for its large stock of foreign books, issued five catalogs between 1840 and 1848.[5] While in New York, he became friends with a number of leading intellectuals, including the ethnologist and public servant Albert Gallatin. In 1842, he helped Gallatin found the American Ethnological Society.[6] Bartlett later served as the Foreign Corresponding Secretary of the organization.[7]

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. The first edition was translated into Dutch and published in 1854. The third edition of 1860 was translated into German and published in 1866. The work is referenced frequently by the Oxford English Dictionary in which it is given the abbreviation "BARTLETT Dict. Amer."{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

Bartlett returned to Providence in 1850.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} From 1850–1853 he was the United States Boundary Commissioner responsible for surveying the boundary between the United States and Mexico. During this time he traveled with Henry Cheever Pratt throughout the Southwest.[1] The autoethnonym of the Seri people of northwestern Mexico, Comcaac (which he wrote as "komkak"), was first recorded by Bartlett during a short visit to the area in early 1852. The word was included in the list of approximately 180 words that Bartlett archived in the Bureau of American Ethnology (now part of the National Anthropological Archives, housed at the Smithsonian).{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

After being superseded by another commissioner upon the accession of President Franklin Pierce, he published A Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora and Chihuahua[1] (2 vols, 1854), which contains much valuable scientific and historical material concerning the area.

From 1855 to 1872 Bartlett was Secretary of State of Rhode Island, and while serving in this capacity thoroughly re-arranged and classified the state records and prepared various bibliographies and compilations, relating chiefly to the history of the state. In the later years of his life he became the librarian for the John Carter Brown Library and collated an exhaustive catalog of the collection that was published in four volumes.[8] He died in Providence on May 28, 1886.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

Family

John Russell Bartlett was the son of Smith Bartlett and Nancy (Russell) Bartlett. He married Eliza Allen Rhodes of Pawtuxet, Rhode Island on May 15, 1831. They had seven children, including four daughter: Elizabeth Dorrance (1833-1840), Anna Russell (1835-1885), Leila (1846-1850), and Fanny Osgood (1850-1882). The last daughter was named for the poet, Frances Sargent Osgood, a friend of the family. Their three sons were Marine Corps Major Henry Anthony (1838-1901), George Francis (1840-1842), Captain, and later Rear Admiral on the Retired List, John R. Bartlett, USN, who served in the Civil War and Spanish–American War and who was also a noted oceanographer. Eliza died in 1853. On November 12, 1863, Bartlett married his second wife, Ellen Eddy, of Providence.

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Note

John Russell Bartlett should not be confused with John Bartlett, compiler of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.

Selected works

  • {{cite book |title= The Progress of Ethnology: An Account of Recent Archæological, Philological and Geographical Researches in Various Parts of the Globe, Tending to Elucidate the Physical History of Man (2nd edition) |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=C5-qtlaGje0C |last= Bartlett |first= John Russell|year= 1847|publisher= William Van Norden|location= New York |accessdate= May 20, 2009 }}
  • Bartlett, John Russell (1854). [https://books.google.com/books?id=VkYTAAAAYAAJ Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua: Connected with the United States and Mexican Boundary Commission, During the Years 1850, '51, '52, and '53 (Vol. I)] and [https://archive.org/details/personalnarrati00bartgoog (Vol. II)] New York: D. Appleton & Company.
  • {{cite book |title= Census of the Inhabitants of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=oc_-CMySsLIC |last= Bartlett |first= John Russell|year= 1858|publisher= Anthony Knowles & Company|location= Providence |accessdate= May 20, 2009 }}
  • {{cite book |title= Records of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, in New England: 1784–1792 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=AFgaAAAAYAAJ |last= Bartlett |first= John Russell|year= 1865|publisher= Providence Press Co.|location= Providence |accessdate= May 20, 2009 }}
  • {{cite book|last1=Bartlett|first1=John Russell|title=The Literature of the Rebellion: A Catalogue of Books and Pamphlets Relating to the Civil War of the United States|date=1866|publisher=Draper and Halliday|location=Boston|url=https://archive.org/details/literatureofrebe5811bart|accessdate=4 January 2015}}
  • {{cite book |title= The Soldiers' National Cemetery at Gettysburg: With the Proceedings at Its Consecration, at the Laying of the Corner-stone of the Monument, and at Its Dedication |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=QAgTAAAAYAAJ |last= Bartlett |first= John Russell|year= 1874|publisher= Providence Press Co.|location= Providence |accessdate= May 20, 2009 }}
  • {{cite book |title= Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded as Peculiar to the United States (4th Edition) |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=z5wYAAAAIAAJ |last= Bartlett |first= John Russell|year= 1877|publisher= Little, Brown, and Company|location= Boston |accessdate= May 20, 2009 }}

References

1. ^{{cite web | author=| year=2011 | title=John Russell Bartlett papers, 1850–1853 | work=Research Collections | publisher=Archives of American Art | url=http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/john-russell-bartlett-papers-5846 | accessdate=29 Jun 2011}}
2. ^{{cite book|last1=Gammell|first1=William|title=Life and Services of the Hon. John Russell Bartlett|date=1886|publisher=Providence Press Company|location=Providence, RI|page=5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B8M-AAAAYAAJ&dq=John%20Russell%20Bartlett%20AND%20death&pg=PA5#v=onepage&q&f=false|accessdate=4 January 2015}}
3. ^{{cite book|last1=Gammell|first1=William|title=Life and Services of the Hon. John Russell Bartlett|date=1886|publisher=Providence Press Company|location=Providence, RI|page=19|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B8M-AAAAYAAJ&dq=John%20Russell%20Bartlett%20AND%20death&pg=PA19#v=onepage&q&f=false|accessdate=4 January 2015}}
4. ^American Antiquarian Society Members Directory
5. ^{{cite book|last1=Gammell|first1=William|title=Life and Services of the Hon. John Russell Bartlett|date=1886|publisher=Providence Press Company|location=Providence, RI|page=7|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B8M-AAAAYAAJ&dq=John%20Russell%20Bartlett%20AND%20death&pg=PA7#v=onepage&q&f=false|accessdate=4 January 2015}}
6. ^{{cite book|last1=Gammell|first1=William|title=Life and Services of the Hon. John Russell Bartlet|date=1886|publisher=Providence Press Company|location=Providence, R.I.|page=7|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B8M-AAAAYAAJ&dq=John%20Russell%20Bartlett%20AND%20death&pg=PA7#v=onepage&q&f=false|accessdate=4 January 2015}}
7. ^{{cite book|last=Squier|first=E.G.|title=Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley|year=1848|publisher=Smithsonian Institution|location=Washington, D.C.|page=48|url=http://www.wdl.org/en/item/4301/view/1/48/}}
8. ^{{cite book |title= Lamb's Biographical Dictionary of the United States (Vol. 1) |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=rPoUAAAAYAAJ |last= Brown |first= John Howard|year= 1900|publisher= James H. Lamb Co.|location= Boston|page=211 |accessdate= May 20, 2009 }}
9. ^{{cite book|last1=Bartlett|first1=John Russell|title=Genealogy of that Branch of the Russell Family|date=1879|publisher=Providence Press Company|location=Providence|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2e0UAAAAYAAJ&dq=John%20Russell%20Bartlett%20AND%20death&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false|accessdate=4 January 2015}}
Attribution
{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Bartlett, John Russell}}

External links

  • John Russell Bartlett Papers at the John Carter Brown Library
  • John Russell Bartlett Papers at the Rhode Island Historical Society
  • John Russell Bartlett scrapbook and letters. Available online through Lehigh University's I Remain: A Digital Archive of Manuscripts, Letters, and Ephemera.
  • John Russell Bartlett Society
  • {{Gutenberg author |id=Bartlett,+John+Russell+(1805-1886) | name=John Russell Bartlett}}
  • {{Internet Archive author |sname=John Russell Bartlett |sopt=t}}
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