staff of Gov. Hiram Tuttle, with the rank of General, and was President of the Manchester Board of Trade in 1896 and 1897, and had earlier assisted in the formation of the Board. He was an attendant at the Hanover Street Congregational Church and had been president of the society. Socially he held membership in both the Derryfield and Calumet Clubs. He beame an active member of the Manchester Historic Association soon after its incorporation, and showed great interest in its success.

General Bartlett was a man of rare quality, a man who would have achieved high success in almost any calling in life. He came of a family in which many names are written in high places, and his name deserves to be written among the highest on the roll. He was born at a time when Mason, Webster and Pierce were in the zenith of their fame. All through his school-boy days Webster and Pierce in New Hampshire and Story and Choate in Massachusetts were constantly pointed to as the brightest examples of the most complete success; and interested and attracted by the brilliant achievements of these great leaders he naturally turned to the law and was admitted to the Hillsborough Bar in 1858. Reared upon a farm he passed through all of the struggles and privations that intervene between the days of earnest toil for a living and the time, when by hard, painstaking work, prudence and foresight in manage. ment in his chosen profession he had acquired the independence of a comfortable fortune.

A man of fine physique and possessed of an excellent voice and gifts as an orator, he was in frequent demand as a public speaker, responding on many and widely diverse occasions.

In recent years he delivered three notable orations. One at the dedication of Stark Park on June 17, 1893, one at Amherst at the unveiling of the Soldiers' Monument, and the third and last at the Peterborough Celebration. An act illustrative of his generosity occurred in 1893, when after the city had made arrangements for the celebration of the 17th of June by the dedication of Stark Park, the question was raised by the late James

B. Straw, then City Auditor, as to the right of the city to expend money for such a purpose. In order that there might be no delay in the proceedings, and to remove all doubt as to the celebration, General Bartlett came forward and generously offered to bear the entire expense of the celebration. At the commemoration of the city's semi-centennial, he was prominent as President of the Day on Tuesday, September 8, and at that time delivered an eloquent address.

Many citizens of Manchester recall General Bartlett's rare affability, and his ready fund of anecdotes and illustration, which never failed him, whether the occasion was in the companionship of a few friends or at public gatherings. Had he been more aggressive and self-assertive he might undoubtedly have attained to high political position, but of a dignified temperament, reserved in his manner, holding his own worth at a true and just estimate, while expecting others to do the same, he had no liking for the scramble that too often accompanies him who seeks for political preferment.

He died on Jan. 25, 1900, in his 67th year, while seemingly in the full possession of all his powers, active until within a few days of his decease.

General Bartlett married, December, 1858, Miss Hannah M. Eastman of Croydon, who died July 25, 1890. They had two. children, a son, Charles Leslie, who died at the age of four years, and one daughter, Carrie Belle, who married Mr. Charles H. Anderson, and survived her father. J. P. T.

NATHAN P. KIDDER.

NATHAN PARKER KIDDER, the son of Samuel B. and Mary A. Kidder, was born in Manchester, April 12, 1844, and was a descendant of General John Stark. His father was superintendent of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company's locks and canals, and the home, which is still standing, was near the gate house between the railroad and the canal. As a boy he was fond of outdoor sports and a great lover of horses. He enjoyed

boating and fishing. Like the other members of the family he was always searching for Indian arrow heads and other relics, and many specimens of the Kidder collection were found by him and his younger brother, Selwyn, in their diligent search while their mates were playing. He first attended school at the "Old Falls schoolhouse," so called, which was burned in 1859. From there he went to the North Grammar school and entered the High school at the age of twelve. Illness caused him to lose several terms, and he was still a member of the school in 1861 when the attack on Sumter was made. His young heart beat with patriotic impulse and he left the student's desk to enlist. He was refused by the mustering officer in Manchester, upon giving his age as seventeen, but with his unwonted determination he made another effort and went to Concord, finding the same officer mustering in the recruits. When asked his age he replied, "eighteen," and was accepted. He was enrolled on January 16, 1862, in Company M, First New Hampshire Cavalry, his fondness for a horse causing him to choose cavalry service rather than infantry. His brother, Charles S., enlisted at the same time. As the state of New Hampshire raised only four companies of cavalry, they formed a battalion of the First New England Cavalry and were ordered to Pawtucket, R. I., Janu ary 22, where they went into camp, leaving there for Washington, March 17. While at Washington the name of the regiment was changed from the First New England Cavalry to the First Rhode Island Cavalry, which displeased the battalion so much that some of the officers telegraphed to Governor Berry asking him to come to Washington and see if he could not get the battalion out of the regiment. In May the New Hampshire battalion was ordered to Fredericksburg to report to General Shields, which pleased the whole battalion, as it separated them from the Rhode Island portion of the regiment. The "New Hampshire Cavalry gained for itself a high reputation for discipline and efficiency and reflected honor upon the state."

Mr. Kidder participated in twenty engagements, viz: Front