The Biographical Dictionary of America/Bartlett, Peter Mason

​BARTLETT, Peter Mason, educator, was born in Salisbury, Conn., Feb. 6, 1820; son of Isaiah and Miriam (Mason) Bartlett and a descendant of Robert Bartlett of England who settled at Plymouth, Mass., in 1623. He was graduated at Williams college A.B., 1850, A.M., 1853, and at Union theological seminary, New York, in 1853; served as chaplain in the New York mounted rifles, 1862-'64, and was married in April, 1872, to Florence Alden, a direct descendant of John Alden. He was president of Maryville college, and professor of mental and moral science and of didactic theology there, 1868-'87. He died at Maryville, Tenn., Oct. 29, 1901.

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