Cooperstown Sentinel Courier
October 3, 1913
David Bartlett
David Bartlett died on October 16, 1913 at Newton Massachusetts where he had been taken to receive treatment. A year ago he was stricken with paralysis and confined to his home for several weeks. He was then removed to North Mass where he and Mrs. Bartlett took up their abode. Since that time Mr. Bartlett's condition gradually became worse.
Mr. Bartlett was one of Cooperstown's most promising businessmen, and a leader in matters political.
Mr. Bartlett was born etc. (Here follows this biography. You sent me two.) He was a man of deep convictions and was always a staunch supporter of the prohibition law, and will go down in the history of this community as a man of great influence for good.
Besides his wife Mr. Bartlett is survived by two brothers and other relatives, all of whom reside in the east. The funeral was held October 19, 1913 at Newton Massachusetts.
David Bartlett was born at Lemorna, Maine on October 23, 1855. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1876 and of the Law School there. He was admitted to practice in 1897 (sic-probably 1877), went to Colorado in 1880 acid came to Cooperstown in 1883. Here he entered a partnership with Julius Stevens in law and real estate. He returned to Colorado for a time, but came back to Cooperstown in 1887, and here made his home.
Mr. Bartlett was president of the first baseball club in 1883, and a member of the first commercial club in 1888.
In state affairs Mr. Bartlett was a member of the North Dakota Constitutional Convention in 1889. He was elected Lieutenant Governor in 1900, 1902, and 1904. He was a member of the North Dakota Commission of the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo in 1901, and the Exposition at St. Louis in 1903. In 1903, he was president of the Board of Trustees at the State University for one term; plus a member of the first Board of Railroad Commissioners of North Dakota. Mr. Bartlett was a member of the Cooperstown school board for fifteen years and was the mayor of Cooperstown.
Mr. Bartlett married Ella Trundy of Searsport, Maine on February 5, 1894. She was a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music.
Mr. Bartlett died Oct. 16, 1913 at Newton, Massachusetts following a paralytic stroke in 1912. Mrs. Bartlett died in 1935 in Massachusetts. There were no children.