The Biographical Dictionary of America/Bartlett, John

​BARTLETT, John, publisher, was born at Plymouth, Mass., June 14, 1820. He acquired a good education and in 1836 entered a publishing establishment in Cambridge, Mass. In 1849 he became manager of the business and conducted it for ten years. In 1862 he was appointed volunteer paymaster in the United States navy. In 1865 he entered the Boston publishing house of Little, Brown & Co., of which he became senior member in 1888. In 1871 Harvard conferred upon him the honorary degree of Master of Arts, and he was made a fellow of the American academy of arts and sciences. Mr. Bartlett prepared "Familiar Quotations"; "New Method of Chess Notation"; "The Shakespeare Phrase Book"; a "Catalogue of Books on Angling," and a "New and Complete Concordance of Shakespeare's Works."

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