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BARTLETT, JOHN RUSSELL (18o5-1886) , American historical and linguistic student, was born in Providence, Rhode Island, on the 23rd of October 18o5. From his first to his eighteenthyear ire lived in Kingston, Canada; he was then in turn, from 1824 to 1836, a clerk in a dry goods store
York
Mexico , but owing to the lack of funds did not finish the work. After being superseded by another commissioner upon the accession of President Franklin Pierce, he published A Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents in Texas
Mexico , California, Sonora and Chihuahua (2 vols., 1854), which, contains much valuable scientific and historical material concerning the south-west. From 1855 to 1872 he 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. He is chiefly remembered however, for his Dictionary of Americanisms (1848), a pioneer
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