Oscar Bartlett
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Oscar F. Bartlett | |
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| Member of the Wisconsin Senate from the 12th district | |
| In office January 1, 1860 – January 1, 1862 | |
| Preceded by | John W. Boyd |
| Succeeded by | Wyman Spooner |
| Member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from the Walworth 3rd district | |
| In office January 1, 1853 – January 1, 1855 | |
| Preceded by | Timothy H. Fellows |
| Succeeded by | Samuel Pratt |
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| Born | October 2, 1823 |
| Died | November 1911 (aged 88) Meridian, New York, U.S. |
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| Allegiance | United States |
| Branch/service | United States Volunteers Union Army |
| Years of service | 1861–1865 |
| Rank | Chief Surgeon |
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| Battles/wars | American Civil War |
Oscar F. Bartlett, M.D., (October 2, 1823 – November 1911) was an American teacher, farm laborer, physician, and politician from Cayuga County, New York. He served as a Union Army Surgeon during the American Civil War and represented Walworth County for two years each in the Wisconsin State Senate and Wisconsin State Assembly. He was a member of the Free Soil Party until its merger to create the Republican Party, and was thereafter a liberal Republican.[1]
Born October 2, 1823, in Victory, New York, one of ten children of Rev. John Milton Bartlett (a former Baptist who joined the Disciples of Christ) and Hannah (Earl) Bartlett. He studied in the local schools, doing well enough that he soon became a teacher himself in the village of Cato, a profession he would practice for ten years. He sustained himself as a farm laborer and teacher, and at the age of fifteen also began to study medicine in the office of a local physician, Dr. Robert Treat Payne.[2]