The Biographical Dictionary of America/Bartley, Elias Hudson

​BARTLEY, Elias Hudson, chemist, was born at Bartleyville, N.J., Dec. 6, 1849. He was graduated B.S. at Cornell university in 1873. After teaching science at the Princeton high school for one year, he became instructor in chemistry at Cornell in 1874-'75. For the three years following he occupied the chair of chemistry at Swarthmore college, delivering in 1877 and 1879 lectures in chemistry before the Franklin institute in Philadelphia. In 1878 and 1879 he studied at the Jefferson medical college, and after obtaining his degree he practised for a year on Long Island. In 1880 he was appointed chemist to the department of health in Brooklyn, N.Y., also becoming, in 1883, the inspector of the New York state board of health. He became professor of chemistry and toxicology at the Long Island college hospital in 1885; lecturer there in 1886, and professor of organic chemistry in Brooklyn college of pharmacy in 1892. He wrote "Text-Book of Medical Chemistry" (1885, 3d enlarged edition, 1894), and became a contributor to the "Reference Hand-Book of Medical Sciences" and to other sanitary and medical journals.