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Individual Record for: Barnabas Henry BARTOL (male)

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NOTES AND SOURCES: BARNABAS HENRY BARTOL was the son of Barnabas and Rebecca (Eells) Bartol [see person 8]. He was born in Freeport in 1816 and died in Philadelphia in 1888 [Dunning's Bartol genealogy]. He married EMMA JEMIMA WELCHMAN, born in Kineton, Warwickshire, Eng. on 2 Apr 1821 [NEHGS Register v81 p476], the dau of Edward and Jemima (Williams) Welchman. He was an engineer whose accomplishments designing Cuban sugar mills, the C&O Canal, Bessemer furnaces, the mechanics for the frigate Wabash and New Ironsides, and Washington gas light company (its president) are related in the Bartol papers at the Freeport Historical Society and in Dunning's Bartol genealogy. The couple acquired great wealth, which, on the initiative of their heirs, benefited the town and built its B.H. Bartol Memorial Public Library. It is said that they felt that New York and Philadelphia had more millionaires than Freeport, so it was time to even things up. In 2004, his and his wife's portraits still hang in the Bartol Room of the new town library. The original Bartol Memorial Library on Freeport's Main Street is now an Abercrombie and Fitch yuppie store. Dunning's Bartol genealogy states they had two children.
SOURCES:
--Corliss Augustus W. [compiler?], Old Times in North Yarmouth, Maine, [a/k/a OTNY], originally a periodical, now compiled and republished under same name, Somersworth NH: New Hampshire Publishing Co., 1977 (at NEHGS).
--Young, David C., "Royal River Valley Families (No. Yarmouth), c1970, poss. at Androscoggin Hist Soc.; posted on RootsWeb at http:// ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/me/cumberland/nyarmouth/settlers/files1.txt
the Bartol Room of the Freeport Community Library.
--NEHGS v81 p476
--Banks, Dr Chas R., The Bartol Family, Westcustogo Chronicle, v1 n1 (the only issue), 1885 (collected-reprinted at back of OTNY book)

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