CHARLES BARTLES, JR., attorney at law, was born in Flemington, New Jersey, in October, 1843, and is a son of Charles and Eliza (Hart) Bartles of that place. His ancestors on the paternal side were of German origin, and settled in New Jersey during the war of Frederick the Great. The Harts came from Scotland prior to the Revolution, with John Witherspoon, the first president of Princeton College. The subject of this sketch was reared in Flemington, and was educated at Lawrenceville, New Jersey. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in the class of 1867, with the degree of LL. B., and was immediately afterwards admitted to practice in the courts of Boston, Massachusetts. In the summer of 1867 he came to Williamsport, and in September was admitted to the bar of Lycoming county, and subsequently to the Supreme court of Pennsylvania, and the Federal courts of the United States. For the past twenty-five years he has been engaged in the active practice of the law in Williamsport, and has built up a large and successful business. Mr. Bartles has taken an active interest in the manufacturing growth of the city, and was instrumental in starting the Solar Oil Company. He has also been interested in lumber operations, and is a director in the Caledonia Coal Company, Dents Run Coal Com-pany, and the Deer Creek Coal Company, and is counsel for the same, and is also interested in private enterprises of coal and coke. Politically he has always been an ardent Republican, and has taken an active part in promoting the interests of that party. Mr. Bartles married Mary E. Bell of Pittsburg, and has four children: Charles; Charlotte; Frederick, and Mario. He is a member of the Masonic order, and the family are attendants of Trinity Protestant Episcopal church.
CHARLES BARTLES, JR., attorney at law, was born in Flemington, New Jersey, in October, 1843, and is a son of Charles and Eliza (Hart) Bartles of that place. His ancestors on the paternal side were of German origin, and settled in New Jersey during the war of Frederick the Great. The Harts came from Scotland prior to the Revolution, with John Witherspoon, the first president of Princeton College. The subject of this sketch was reared in Flemington, and was educated at Lawrenceville, New Jersey. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in the class of 1867, with the degree of LL. B., and was immediately afterwards admitted to practice in the courts of Boston, Massachusetts. In the summer of 1867 he came to Williamsport, and in September was admitted to the bar of Lycoming county, and subsequently to the Supreme court of Pennsylvania, and the Federal courts of the United States. For the past twenty-five years he has been engaged in the active practice of the law in Williamsport, and has built up a large and successful business. Mr. Bartles has taken an active interest in the manufacturing growth of the city, and was instrumental in starting the Solar Oil Company. He has also been interested in lumber operations, and is a director in the Caledonia Coal Company, Dents Run Coal Com-pany, and the Deer Creek Coal Company, and is counsel for the same, and is also interested in private enterprises of coal and coke. Politically he has always been an ardent Republican, and has taken an active part in promoting the interests of that party. Mr. Bartles married Mary E. Bell of Pittsburg, and has four children: Charles; Charlotte; Frederick, and Mario. He is a member of the Masonic order, and the family are attendants of Trinity Protestant Episcopal church.
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