G.W. BARTLETT, general superintendent of the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railroad Company at Bradford, Penn.. was born in Portsmouth, N. H.. August 20, 1856, a son of James P. and Frances (Harris) Bartlett, natives of New Hampshire, and of English descent. He graduated from Dart mouth College in 1877, then went west, and obtained a position in the freight office of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad at Council Bluffs, where he remained two years; then moved to Buffalo, N. Y., where he was employed as civil engineer by the Erie Railroad Company, and from there went to Port Jervis, same State, where he became chief clerk in the superintendent's office. Here he remained until appointed road master of the Delaware Division of the Erie road, and subsequently was promoted to superintendent of the Rochester Division, with headquarters at Rochester. In 1857 he was again promoted by the Erie Company to the position of superintendent of the Third and Fourth Divisions of the New York. Pennsylvania it Ohio Railroad, with headquarters at Galion, Ohio, but in 1888 he resigned to accept his present position, and located at Bradford. He is a young man of good business ability, and his various promotions have been the results of his integrity and strict business principles.
He married in 1883, and has two sons: Francis Harris and Robert Duncan.
In politics he is a Republican.
